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INSTRUCTION 

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THE SCIENTIFIC cTWETHOD 

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RjJGHT THINKING 

THE PRINCIPLE OF TRUE PRj,AYERj> 

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JOHN W.PARjSONS 

^Metaphysician 



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CONTENTS 



Chapter 


Page 


I. The standard of perfection. 


1 


The object of life. 


2 


The rule of life. 


3 


Exact language. 


4 


The nature of God. 


6 


The evolution of man's concept of God. 


7 


Man. 


8 


The unity of God and man. 


9 


The Christ. 


10 


The Holy Spirit. 


12 


The Holy Ghost. 


13 


The true idea. 


14 


What am I? 


15 


Heaven and hell. 


16 


The way to find heaven. 


17 


The scientific basis. 


18 


Material man not real. 


19 


Man's apparent duality. 


21 


II. What is truth? 


23 


Evil cannot be increased. 


26 


Thou shalt not be forgotten. 


27 


Evil is not real. 


29 


Things are what we think. 


30 


Dominion. 


31 


The truth shall make you free. 


33 



CONTENTS — Continued 

Chapter Page 

II. The material world. 34 

A dream. 35 

The metaphysical view. 37 

The mathematical view. 39 

The natural science view. 40 

The mist of matter. 42 

The end of the veil of matter. 44 

III. Predestination. 46 
Man has no free-will. 47 
All is God and His manifestation. 49 
Mortal mind. 50 
Self-made laws. 54 
Birth and death. 55 
The counterfeit. 57 
The end of the world. 59 
The Bible. 61 
The evolution of prayer. 63 

IV. The miracles of Jesus. 67 
The key to the miracles. 67 
Scientific results. 69 
Spiritual practice and malpractice. 71 
Follow me. 73 
Choose life. 74 
The basis of scientific right thinking. 75 
The Word of Truth. 77 



CONTENTS — Continued 

Chapter Page 

IV. Simplicity. 80 
Healing. . 81 

Watch and pray. 82 

Sign-posts. 83 

A warning. 83 

V. True healing. 87 

All can heal. 88 

Concentration. 89 

The eternal now. 89 

Why a person is healed. 90 

The value of treatment. 93 

Treatment. 94 

Daily treatment necessary. 96 

Love necessary. 98 

Evil has no power. 99 

Take no thought. 100 

Fear. 101 
Give up doing things materially and treat. 101 

Blasphemy. 103 

God the only creator. 105 

Heaven. 107 

Infinite joy. 108 

The twenty-third Psalm. 110 

Summary. 112 

Denials and affirmations. 118 



"And I saw another sign in heaven." 

(Rev. 15:1). 

"And another angel came out of the temple 
which is in heaven, he also having a sharp 
sickle." (Rev. 14:17). 

"And which of you with taking any 
thought can add to his stature one cubit?" 

(Luke 12:25). 

"For from henceforth there shall be five 
in one house divided, three against two, 
and two against three." (Luke 12:52). 



Chapter I 

THE STANDARD OF PERFECTION 

A call to higher motives is the underlying 
trend of thought to-day. Mankind has for ages 
struggled under self-imposed subjugation to 
the mythology of evil. Believing evil to be 
good constitutes the only fabric of its exis- 
tence, and this existence but a fable, not a fact. 

Struggling to obtain good, we have hitherto 
been led by our conscience, which is not a safe 
guide as it depends upon our training and en- 
vironment. We now have an accurate stan- 
dard by which to gauge every thought. This 
standard is absolute perfection, God and His 
manifestation. "I am the Lord thy God, 
. . . Thou shalt have no other gods before 
me" (Ex. 20:2, 3). 

Obedience to this standard of absolute per- 
fection precedes the invariable manifestation 
of good. In response to right thinking — think- 
ing of perfection — good must follow. This 
covenant is referred to throughout the Bible, 
and cannot be broken, because it is the ever- 
lasting covenant between God, the Principle of 
good, and man, His manifestation. "My coven- 
ant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is 
gone out of my lips" (Ps. 89:34). 



1 So sure is the omnipotence of this Principle of 
good that if you will lose all sense of a material 
world by actively dwelling in thought upon God 
and heaven, you will be helped in some way in- 

5 stantaneously. No one can doubt this when the 
nature of Principle is understood. What we 
want for freedom and happiness is knowledge, 
understanding of God, absolute good. 

10 THE OBJECT OF LIFE 

The object of life in the world of reality is 
the expression of continuous, infinite joy. 
"The kingdom of God is . . . joy" (Rom. 
14:17). God, the Principle of good, expresses 

15 this joy in giving it to the spiritual beings by 
means of which he thinks and acts and there- 
fore enjoys all his creation. "Thou hast cre- 
ated all things, and for thy pleasure they are 
and were created" (Rev. 4:11). 

20 What is required of us is to see everything as 
nearly in accordance with absolute good as pos- 
sible, by giving happiness to others. We attain 
our happiness by giving others happiness. "Re- 
joice in that which I create" (Is. 65:18). It 

25 often seems as though this happiness came by 
relieving those around us from sin, sickness, 
want, and misery. This we are able to do only by 
treating for them, that is, by praying — think- 
ing rightly in a scientific manner — for them. 

SO Our aim must be for the greatest good. We 



1 must wake up from this dream of life in mat- 
ter, but at the same time we cannot do the 
work of anyone else. Bach man has to work 
out his own salvation. We can only help our 
5 fellow-man as the thought of him enters our 
consciousness, dispelling the evil thought of 
him, thereby freeing all concerned We can, 
however, explain the truth to people and so 
point out the way of salvation, when the 

10 truth shall make them free whereby they 
not only gain freedom for themselves and 
those they love, but pass on the secret to 
others. "// any man hear my words, and 
believe not, I judge him not: for I came 

15 not to judge the world, but to save the world" 
(John 12:47). 

THE RULE OF LIFE 

While the only rule of life is to know that 
20 all is God and His manifestation, we cannot 
continuously think, speak, and act in accord- 
ance therewith. When able to do this the ma- 
terial man will disappear forever. 

We can, however, work from the point of 
25 view that there is nothing but the world of 
reality, God and His perfect world, and the 
mist of matter (See Gen. 2:6 and "Science 
and Health," p. 546, line 12) more or less 
hiding it from us. This, the highest working 
30 basis to - day, eliminates every false idea of 



4 

1 personality, and by a comprehension of this 
basis, followed by treatment, we can prove by 
demonstration, the unreality of evil and the all- 
ness of God. 

5 

EXACT LANGUAGE 

The terms used to-day in "speaking of the 
things of Spirit" better enable people to grasp 
metaphysical ideas "as thought is educated up 

10 to spiritual apprehension" for "God is spirit; 
therefore the language of Spirit must be, and 
is, spiritual." "As human thought changes 
. . . error will no longer be used in stating 
truth" ("Science and Health," p. 125, line 12; 

15 p. 126, line 2; p. 117, line 6; p. 349, line 24). 
Too few words often do not elucidate the under- 
lying meaning, a number of words have the 
same significance, while others may be used to 
make clear a certain differentiation, conse- 

20 quently, accurate definition of terms used 
should be sought. 

For the sake of clear understanding the 
word "God" should be used as meaning "cause" 
only, and "the world of reality" or "God and 

25 heaven" when reference is made to God and 
His manifestation. The words God, Life, 
Truth, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Principle, I, 
Being, existence, reality, etc., all have the same 
significance, and imply permanence. The words 

30 mortal, carnal, unconscious, subjective, and 



subconscious mind, subliminal self, Satan, 
Satan's angels, devil, evil, ether, matter, lines of 
force, mist of matter, cinema pictures, material 
thoughts, thought germs, universal conscious- 
ness, electricity, etc., all have the same signifi- 
cance, and imply impermanence, unreality, and 
nonexistence. 

Mortal, material, personal, and human sense, 
conscious, objective, and human mind, other- 
wise known as the material man, must be dis- 
tinguished from the real spiritual man. The 
material man is the individualised part of the 
false consciousness in mortal mind, while the 
real man is the individualised idea of the mani- 
festation, expression, reflection, consciousness, 
knowledge, or thinking of God. The Christ, 
the spiritual or true idea, the image and like- 
ness of God, the Spirit of truth, the Holy 
Spirit, or the action of G o d all express the 
"spiritual, eternal nature" of God ("Science 
and Health," p. 133, line 9), which, from a 
material point of view, are known as the Holy 
Ghost, the Comforter, grace, the thinning of 
the mist of matter, or treatment. The Son, 
man generically, or compound idea is "the 
generic term for all that reflects God's image 
and likeness" ("Science and Health," p. 475, 
line 15), while specifically, man means all 
of the individualised ideas of the conscious- 
ness of God in Mind, and signifies all that 



6 

1 is meant by the Christ. 

THE NATURE OF GOD 

God, "the Father, of whom are all things, 
5 and we in him" (I Cor. 8:6), is infinite Being. 
"God is not a man" (Num. 23:19). "Do not I 
fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord" (Jer. 
23:24). God is the Principle of good, govern- 
ing all — as Jesus said, "My Father and your 

10 Father; . . . my God and your God." 
(John 20:17), the animating divine Principle 
by virtue of which everything exists. "Of him, 
and through him, and to him are all things" 
(Rom. 11:36). This cause is everlasting life 

15 (John 5:26); omnipotent Truth (Ps. 31:5); 
perfect Love (I John 4:8); divine Mind 
(Rom. 11:34) ; sinless Soul (Acts 4:32) ; infin- 
ite Spirit (John 4:24) and the Principle of all 
good. God is the only creator (Gen. 1:1) ; the 

20 only Ego (Ex. 3:14); the only person 
(Is. 45:22); All-in-all (I Cor. 15:28); every- 
thing was made by Him (John 1:3), and all that 
He made was, is, and always will be "very 
good" (Gen. 1:31). 

25 All of the time during which we are directly 
and actively thinking of God, the mist of mat- 
ter is thinning, and we know more about God. 
The desire to know and to learn of God, to con- 
secrate ourselves to some slight apprehension 

30 and appreciation of our infinitely loving Father 



is the only way in which we can "find the 
indissoluble spiritual link which establishes 
man forever in the divine likeness, inseparable 
from his creator" ("Science and Health," p. 491, 
line 15). 

THE EVOLUTION OF MAN'S CONCEPT 
OF GOD 

The evolution of man has not only been a 
physical development, but an intellectual, moral, 
and spiritual advancement, the first concep- 
tion of man appearing as hardly more than a 
beast. He then began to obtain a knowledge 
of good, which gradually evolved until he recog- 
nized the existence of a power or being supe- 
rior to himself, and began to lift his thoughts 
in what is called prayer. 

The idea of God gradually penetrating 
through the mist of matter, "the mist of 
obscurity evolved by error" ("S c i e n c e and 
H e a 1 1 h," p. 523, line 3) , as recorded in the 
Bible, reveals a tyrannical (Gen. 3:15), 
changeable (Gen. 6:7), warrior (Ex. 15:13), 
human (Ex. 23:11), angry (Num. 12:9), un- 
certain (Deut. 5:29), jealous (Deut. 14:24), 
and vengeful (Deut. 22:35) God. In the 51st. 
Psalm we come to the idea of God that re- 
quired not the sacrifice of innocent animals, 
but the sacrifice of "a broken and contrite 
heart," and later a still higher concept was that 



1 of the God who "desired mercy, and not sac- 
rifice; and the knowledge of God more than 
burnt offerings" (Hosea 6:6). We now know 
that God is Life itself, Truth itself, and 

5 Love itself as Jesus taught, and this perfec- 
tion we can now prove as he did by demon- 
stration. "Blessed are the pure in heart: for 
they shall see God" (Matt. 5:8). 

10 MAN 

Man is not a material being, liable to sin, 
disease, and suffering. Man is now, always 
was, and always will be perfect, spiritual, and 
divine, made in the image and likeness of Spirit, 

15 and governed by God alone. The Bible makes 
this perfectly clear. Jesus taught that all men 
were divine and said : "I am in the Father, and 
the Father in me" (John 14:11), and "ye are 
in me, and I in you" (John 14:20); and 

20 again, "Is it not written in your law, . . . 
ye are gods ? . . . and the scripture cannot 
be broken"! (John 10:34,35). The conception of 
Jesus as the only begotten Son of God is due 
to misunderstanding of this teaching. John 

25 drew attention to the difference between 
Christ, the only begotten Son, and Jesus the 
Christ, when he wrote: "We beheld his glory 
as of the only begotten" (John 1:14), the 
word "as" differentiating the two. Men have 

30 been so misled by matter that they could not 



9 

see that the real man was and is spiritual. 
Men have conceived of God as man - like, 
instead of knowing man to be God - like. Other 
Biblical proofs of man's spiritual nature are: 
"God created man in his own image" (Gen. 
1:27), and "as he is, so are we in this world" 
(I John 4:17). We are "partakers in the 
divine nature" (II Peter 1:4), and "whosoever 
is born of God doth not commit sin" (I John 
3:9). Again, "Ye are of God" (I John 4:4), 
"Ye are sons of the living God" (Hosea 1:10), 
and "noiv are we the sons of God" (I John 
3:2), and "we know that we are of God" 
(I John 5:19), "for ye are all the children of 
God" (Gal. 3:26). 

THE UNITY OF GOD AND MAN 

Jesus was undoubtedly the only person en- 
titled to be called the Saviour of mankind be- 
cause he presented to mortals the true idea of 
God and man, and taught the everlasting unity 
between them and gave overwhelming proof of 
this oneness. Throughout the Bible we are told 
that we are "hid with Christ in God" (Col. 
3:3), "in Christ" (Rom. 12:5), and that all 
were one in him. Paul says, "Ye are all one in 
Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28), "All things are 
yours; . . . And ye are Christ's: and 
Christ is God's" (I Cor. 3:21, 23). "The one- 
ness of all men with one another in Christ, 



10 

1 and their oneness with God through Christ, is 
the foundation of all practical and effective 
religion" (Father Tyrrell in "The Way of 
Truth"). This unity — "I and my Father are 

5 one" (John 10:30) — Jesus proved "not only in 
justice to himself, but in mercy to mortals, — 
to show them how to do" their life work "but 
not to do it for them nor to relieve them of a 
single responsibility" ("Science and Health," 
10 p. 18, line 7), and that they might know 
that "When Christ, who is our life, shall ap- 
pear, then shall we appear with him in glory" 
(Col. 3:4). 

15 THE CHRIST 

Paul said: "There is one God, and one 
mediator between God and men, the man Christ 
Jesus" (I Tim. 2:5), and Jesus, voicing the 
Christ, said: "/ am the way" (John 14:6), 

20 therefore, Christ is the way by means of which 
man knows God and God knows His manifes- 
tation, and that is the true idea of God and 
the true idea of the manifestation of God. 'Wo 
man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither 
knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and 
whomsoever the Son will reveal him" (Matt. 
11:27). When we apply the word "Christ" as 
meaning the true idea of God, we find that it 
is through the Christ alone that we reach God. 

30 "No man cometh unto the Father but by me" 



11 

(John 14:6). The Christ, "who is the image 
of the invisible God" (Col. 1:15), is the true 
idea of "Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, 
Truth, Love, all substance, and intelligence." 
"Principle and its idea are one, and this one is 
God" ("Science and Health," p. 587, line 5; 
p. 465, line 17) . This is the exact knowl- 
edge of what Principle is, or the Christ, the 
word "Principle" meaning the Principle of, or 
inherent in, Life, Truth, Love, etc. The Christ 
is therefore the true idea of God, or God's idea 
of Himself, which is the exact knowledge of 
Life, Truth, Love, and all the other qualities 
and attributes of God. 

Christ is also the true idea of the manifesta- 
tion of God, the manifestation being man and 
the universe, "Man and the spiritual universe 
coexist with God" ("S c i e n c e and Health," 
p. 267, line 11); the universe being the 
inexhaustible spiritual ideas in Mind, 
God. 'Wo man can come to me, except the 
Father which hath sent me draw him" (John 
6:44). 

The Christ is the true idea of God and His 
manifestation, and man is this true idea held 
in Mind, in God. "This idea is named man, it 
has infinite expressions, all of which are the 
members of the body of Christ." "Generically 
man is one, and specifically man means all 
men" ("Science and Health," 1st edition, p. 222, 



12 

1 only; p. 267, line 6). Man is God's con- 
sciousness by means of which God knows 
Himself and His ideas. God and man are so 
much one that no other distinction can 
5 be made between them than that God is cause 
and man the manifestation of cause. They 
are absolutely one, but not one and the same. 

The true idea of anything saves up from a 
false or mistaken concept of it; so the Christ 

10 has always been the saving of the world, de- 
stroying the "works of the devil" (I John 3:8), 
taking "away the sin of the world" (John 
1:29), as it comes to human consciousness, 
however dimly discerned. 

15 God works by means of the Christ, and we 
individualise "the power of God and the wis- 
dom of God" (I Cor. 1:24). Each of us is an 
individualization of the Christ, of God's in- 
finite consciousness, or one of the infinite num- 

20 ber of spiritual beings in heaven, just as you 
might speak of God as the sun, the rays of 
light as the Christ, and each of us as a ray of 
light. "Ye are the body of Christ, and mem- 
bers in particular" (I Cor. 12:27). 



25 



THE HOLY SPIRIT 



In considering God's "spiritual, eternal na- 
ture" we find that it consists of all that exists; 
both cause and effect, including the relation- 
30 ship between them. "These three are one" 



13 

(I John 5:7). The fundamental relationship 
between' God and man is "the Spirit" that 
"maketh intercession" (Rom. 8:26), called the 
"Holy Spirit" (Rom. 5:5), or the "Holy Ghost" 
(John 14:26). The Holy Spirit is the divine 
animus or law forever at work maintaining and 
unfolding the infinite ideas in Mind as con- 
scious expressions of God. "My Father work- 
eth hitherto, and I work" (John 5:17). 

The Holy Spirit is the action of God on man, 
that maintains man as the consciousness, knowl- 
edge, or thinking of God, God's thinking. It is 
the Holy Spirit "which worketh in you both to 
will and to do of his oivn good pleasure" 
(Phil. 2:13). 

THE HOLY GHOST 

The Holy Ghost is this divine action seen 
materially. From a religious point of view, it 
is the action of God which results in the evil 
disappearing and heaven being seen more as it 
really is. True, or scientific prayer, is the in- 
coming of the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:4-8), or the 
thinning of the mist of matter, which reveals 
the kingdom of God to human consciousness. 

Grace, the divine action of the Holy Spirit, 
reveals the nature of good, and it is by grace 
that we are saved from all evil. It is this ac- 
tion of the Holy Spirit seen materially which 
results in the material man being seen more 



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1 like his real self, thinking of God, because his 
real self is the knowledge or thinking of God. 

THE TRUE IDEA 

5 Because God is Mind, the image and likeness 
or reflection of God may be spoken of as 
"God's power of knowing what He knows," — 
"I AM that I AM" (Ex. 3:14),— thus bearing 
witness, as Paul declared, "that we are the 

10 children of God: . . . heirs of God, and 
joint heirs with Christ" (Rom. 8:16,17), "His 
eternal power and Godhead" (Rom. 1:20). 
This is the quality of self-consciousness in 
Mind. 

15 This consciousness is the knowledge of all the 
qualities, aspects or synonyms, and attributes 
"all right ideas" ("Science and Health," 
p. 475, line 15) of God. As the material 
man is merely the spiritual man seen falsely, 

20 "through a glass, darkly" (I Cor. 5:15), so 
through the material m a n we are now able 
to recognise this knowledge of God. "Know ye 
not that your bodies are the members of 
Christ?" (I Cor. 5:15). The material body 

25 is the misrepresentation of the real man's 
knowledge of God. 

This knowledge of the qualities of God as 
Life is seen as inspiration; 
Truth as understanding; 

30 Love as motive; 



15 

Mind as intelligence; 
Soul as wisdom and knowledge; 
Spirit as purity and holiness; and 
Principle as substance. 

WHAT AM I? 

Man means all of the infinite number of 
spiritual beings which constitute the con- 
sciousness of God, as infinite as God, by means 
of which God thinks and acts and works, each 
man being an individualized idea of that con- 
sciousness. "The universe of Spirit is peo- 
pled with spiritual beings" ("Science and 
Health," p. 264, line 32). Man is also the 
knowledge of God, consisting of an infinite 
succession of all the ideas of which every man 
has been, and will be, conscious of through- 
out eternity, and this knowledge, activity, or 
thinking of the ideas in Mind is God's think- 
ing; not God thinking, as this would be equiv- 
alent to calling man God. 

The distinction of each individual man is 
the variation of the sequence of ideas which 
come to him throughout eternity, and which 
are infinite in number as well as perfect and 
complete. You, the real spiritual being, "are 
my witnesses, saith the Lord" (Is. 43:12), see- 
ing, and therefore bearing witness in thought 
to the nature of God, infinite good. Treat- 
ment proves what God is, as, for instance, 



16 

1 when you realize God as Love, because man 
is made in the image and likeness of God, Love, 
the thinning of the mist of matter enables you 
to discern this Love through your fellow-man. 

5 John speaks of Jesus as "the faithful witness" 
(Rev. 1:5; 3:14), and it was our Lord's un- 
swerving fidelity to good that enabled him to 
prove his declaration, "I have overcome the 
world" (John 16:33). The legal use of the 
10 word "witness," a person who has seen some- 
thing and is therefore competent to testify of 
it, is also applicable, implying one who brings 
facts to light, and disposes of false evidence as 
no evidence at all. The real man is therefore 
15 God's self-consciousness, the life of Life, the 
truth of Truth, the love of Love, the conscious- 
ness of the wisdom, joy and beauty of God, in 
fact, the activity, or active manifestation of God. 

20 HEAVEN AND HELL 

Heaven and hell are not future states to be 
reached by death, as "the last enemy that shall 
be destroyed is death" (I Cor. 15:26). Heaven 
is a perfect state of consciousness "within" 

25 reach of our thought, or "among" us (Luke 
17:21), and a man has his own comparative 
heaven or hell by the way in which he thinks. 
"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" 
(Prov. 23:7). Hell is the punishment that sin 

30 and ignorance bestow upon those who think 



17 

evil, therefore "Seek good, and not evil, that ye 
may live" (Amos 5 :14) . One of the proofs that 
the material world is hell, is that injustice pre- 
vails, and we get punished for ignorance as 
well as sin. Heaven is here around us, but we 
do not see it properly, as we see "through a 
glass, darkly" (I Cor. 13:12). When we pray 
rightly we obtain justice in proportion to the 
clearness of our realization of the world of real- 
ity, this clearness being the measure of the ex- 
tent to which the mist of matter disappears, 
enabling us to see heaven more clearly. 

THE WAY TO FIND HEAVEN 

The way in which we find ourselves in a 
state of consciousness more and more, like 
heaven is by persistently thinking of the world 
of reality. It does not matter how inadequate 
or how nearly perfect our idea is so long as it 
is our best concept of God and heaven. By 
thinking of God, we grow in the understand- 
ing of God, and attain a clearer sense of what 
constitutes the allness of God, and begin to 
comprehend the different views of Him. 

There is no doubt that the earnest desire of 
all spiritual workers is to obtain a higher and 
more intimate knowledge of God, and every ad- 
vance in spirituality or spiritual-mindedness, 
makes it more apparent that this is the only 
thing worth anyone's seeking. One method of 



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1 obtaining this knowledge is that of realizing 
each of the aspects, qualities, attributes, and 
synonyms of God whenever we have a spare 
moment. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace 

5 whose mind is stayed on thee" (Is. 26:3). 

THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS 

In heaven, God, divine Mind, thinks by 
means of the infinite number of spiritual beings 

10 which constitute His consciousness by means of 
which He thinks and works and loves. In this 
so-called material world, mortal mind counter- 
feits this divine activity, inharmoniously think- 
ing by means of an infinite number of imag- 

15 inary material beings. Mortal mind, there- 
fore, sees the spiritual being as a material man 
by means of your so-called material self, the 
mist of matter merely hiding the spiritual man. 
When you see someone sinning, it is not the 

20 spiritual man sinning, nor can it be the mist 
of matter, as it is merely a mist, which, be- 
cause of its inherent nature, gradually disap- 
pears; therefore, it is mortal mind believing in 
evil, an imaginary power other than God, think- 

25 ing by means of your so-called material self 
that there is a material sinning man. 

The main points to be understood in consid- 
ering the facts of the world of reality are the 
non-reality of everything material, and the all- 

30 ness of God and His manifestation. When we 



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know that the only power evil has is the ap- 
parent power we give it in our thoughts by en- 
tertaining it, and that it has no reality, it dis- 
appears. "If sin, sickness, and death were un- 
derstood as nothingness, they would disap- 
pear" ("Science and Health," p. 480, line 29). 
Material thoughts, the basis of all evil, can 
only be kept out of the mind by actively, 
consciously thinking of God and His manifes- 
tation, and the better one understands the 
world of reality, the easier it is to do this. 
"Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at 
peace: thereby good shall come unto thee" 
(Job 22:21). 

MATERIAL MAN NOT REAL 

The Bible frequently states that the material 
man is not real. "Behold, ye are of nothing, 
and your work of nought" (Is. 41:24). "For 
if a man thinketh himself to be something, 
when he is no thin g, he deceiveth himself" 
(Gal. 6:3). "Truth . . . indicates the in- 
finite distance between . . . the material 
and the spiritual, — the unreal and the real" 
("Science and Health," p. 538, line 5). Mat- 
ter is perishable, and the human mind, being 
consicous only of material things, must also 
perish, for when there is nothing to be 
conscious of, the very consciousness itself 
ceases to exist. "The so-called mind is self- 



20 

1 destroyed. The manifestations of evil . . . 
show the self-destruction of error or matter and 
point to matter's opposite, the strength and 
supremacy of Spirit." "Divine Science shows 
5 it is impossible that a material body, though 
interwoven with matter's highest stratum, mis- 
named, mind, should be man" ("Science and 
Health," p. 293, line 23; p. 477, line 13). 
"They which are the children of the flesh, 

10 these are not the children of God" (Rom. 
9:8), and "flesh and blood cannot inherit the 
kingdom of God" (I Cor. 15:50). 

The scientific world is gradually coming to 
the conclusion that what it known as the ma- 

15 terial world has no stability and is rapidly dis- 
appearing, but few recognize the world of real- 
ity which has always existed and will remain 
when all matter is gone. "Matter, hitherto 
deemed indestructible, slowly vanishes by the 

20 continuous dissociation of its component atoms. 
. . . Energy is no more indestructible than 
the matter from which it emanates" (Dr. le 
Bon in "The Evolution of Forces"). (See "The 
Non-reality of Matter," by F. L. Rawson). 

25 There can be no loss of pleasure when "mor- 
tal sense, confining itself to matter" ("Unity 
of Good," p. 62, line 25), disappears, for 
matter gives no pleasure, but merely hides per- 
fection from us and reduces our pleasure. All 

30 of the beauty, the joy, the peace, in fact, every- 



21 

thing that gives us any pleasure, is real and 
eternal. Matter is the mist that merely hides 
the real and results in suffering when we dis- 
obey the law of good, and allow ourselves to 
think of evil. As matter disappears, so does 
our limited sense of pleasure increase, until we 
find "there are pleasures forevermore" (Ps. 
16:11). 

MAN'S APPARENT DUALITY 

The following Biblical statements are scien- 
tific when rightly understood: — 

"Ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit" 
(Rom. 8:9). 

"Ye are of your father the devil, . . . 
He . . . abode not in the truth, because 
there is no truth in him . . . he is a liar, 
and the father of it" {"it" meaning the mate- 
rial man) (John 8:44). 

"He that commiteth sin is of the devil; . . . 
Whosoever is born of God . . . cannot 
commit sin" (I John 3:8,9). 

In order to understand and to enable others 
to understand the true position, you must have 
perfectly clear in your own mind the difference 
between the material and the spiritual. Jesus 
made the distinction perfectly clear when he 
said: "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; 
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" 
(John 3:6). The spiritual man is not a human 



22 

1 being who is constantly thinking of spiritual 
things, in other words, a material person "spir- 
itually minded." When you think of God and 
heaven you are praying; but this is only the 
5 human mind awakening to a less material sense 
of the real world, and is in effect the elimina- 
tion of the mortal sense hitherto thought to be 
man. You must not mix up the two by believ- 
ing that when you are thinking evil, that a man 
10 is sinning, for example, it is your material self 
thinking of evil, and that when you are realiz- 
ing God, and the man is healed, it is your spir- 
itual self thinking of God. In both cases it is 
the material man, in the first case forming a 
15 bad concept, and in the second case forming a 
better concept of the world of reality. Even 
when this material counterfeit, hitherto thought 
to be you, is apparently conscious of evil, your 
real self is always thinking of God. 
20 "Then of the Thee in me who works behind 

The Veil, I lifted up my hands to find 
A Lamp amid the Darkness; and I heard, 
As from Without— 'THE ME WITHIN THEE 
BLIND!'" 
25 (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam). 



Chapter II 

WHAT IS TRUTH? 

1 There are to-day innumerable schools of 
mental workers divided into two broad classes, 
some working in the way Jesus taught us, 
namely, by the realization of God and heaven. 
5 The rest use the human mind in various ways 
with the object of bringing what they think is 
good into manifestation, some even "picturing" 
or "imaging" what they think is best for 
themselves or others, and then dwelling per- 

10 sistently upon it to bring it into visible mani- 
festation. 

Some of these schools teach that man has 
free-will; some say that man has no free-will 
except to pray, while others believe that the f u- 

15 ture of man as Paul, and later Mrs. Eddy (see 
"Unity of Good," p. 19, line 1) and F. L. Raw- 
son have shown, is predestined; that is, the so- 
called material man has no free-will of any kind, 
as the only will is the will of God, and a man's 

20 experiences and environment depend entirely 
upon the extent to which he prays for himself or 
others pray for him. There are also some who 
believe that fatalism is true, that is, under no 
circumstances can the future of man be altered. 

25 This is true of the real man, as the future is 



24 

1 heaven seen through the mist of matter, and 
would be true of the material man were it not 
for the fact that every time a man prays rightly 
some of the evil disappears. 
5 The teachings of these various schools agree 
upon the fundamental fact that if you think 
good, good will come to you; if you think evil, 
evil will come to you. Everyone says "Stop 
thinking evil," but they differ as to what 

10 thoughts should then be entertained. Some say 
that you must think that the material man is 
well when he is ill but it is self-evident that 
this is thinking a lie. 

Some schools teach that when you think 

15 good, you must think of the highest good in 
the material world. This can not be true be- 
cause good is absolute, and evil is relative; 
therefore everything in the material world is 
more or less evil, some so little evil that we 

20 have habitually come to call it good. Jesus him- 
self said. "Why callest thou me good? There 
is none good but one, that is God" (Matt. 
19:17). Therefore when a man is thinking of 
the highest good in the material world he is 

25 thinking evil, and more or less evil alwaj^s fol- 
lows. "/ will bring evil upon this people, even 
the fruit of their thoughts" (Jer. 6:19). 

Besides these classes of thinkers, there are 
those who use supplicatory prayer; that is, ask 

30 for good and then believe that their prayer is 



25 

1 heard, sometimes thinking that it will be an- 
swered if it is a good thing for them. Answers 
to such prayers have been due partly to the fact 
that while asking, the person thought of God, 
5 and therefore discerned good in proportion to 
the clearness of his thought of God; usually, 
however, the response has been due to the in- 
tensity of the human "picturing" or "imaging" 
as very often pointed out in the Bible. (See 

10 Ezk. 8:12). 

The basis of the above workers is what is 
called believing a lie. This is working solely 
with matter, and cannot be right, for Jesus 
said: "God is Spirit; and they that worship 

15 him must worship him in spirit and in truth" 
(John 4:24. Correct translation), and "Ye shall 
know the truth, and the truth shall make you 
free" (John 8:32). What we have to do is to 
think of the highest possible good, perfection. 

20 Some realise this as God and heaven, some as 
cause and its manifestation, while others think 
of Mind and its idea. In the latter case, very 
often the difference between the Mind that is 
God on the one hand, and the mortal or carnal 

25 mind that is "enmity against God" (Horn. 8:7) 

is not yet recognised. Whatever this highest 

good is called, it is a perfect mental world 

that is "irif the midst of us," hidden by matter. 

"I Myself am Heav'n and Hell." 

30 (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam). 



26 

1 EVIL CANNOT BE INCREASED 

Another line of difference is that some teach 
that we have free-will to think good or evil, 
and that when we are thinking either good or 
5 evil, we are creating one or the other. Others 
say that we do not create the evil, but that we 
attract, increase, or intensify the evil by think- 
ing it, and that if we had not thought it strong- 
ly, we probably would not have had it. 

10 These statements are all wrong for we can 
neither create, attract, increase, or intensify 
good or evil. If this were possible, there would 
be another cause than God, whereas all agree 
that there is only one cause. "The only power 

15 of evil is to destroy itself" ("Science and 
Health," p. 186, line 19). God does not de- 
stroy evil, for God is Life itself, Truth itself, 
and Love itself and could not destroy anything ; 
nor is there really any evil to destroy. You can 

20 not truthfully say evil destroys itself save as a 
figure of speech, for this would be ascribing to 
evil the power of self-destruction, whereas the 
only power is the power of God, nor does evil 
disappear, for there is no evil. Peter speaks of 

25 material things dissolving (II Peter 3:11), but 
it would be more accurate to say "clean dis- 
solved" (Is. 24:19), as then there would not 
remain even the quality of the matter. 

Although material terms must yet be used to 

30 poorly convey the meaning of spiritual things, 



27 

1 evil should be understood to be nothing but an 
illusionary false sense, an apparent absence of 
good, which gradually disappears because only 
God and His manifestation exists. All of the 

5 evil there ever was or ever will be exists now 
as a false concept of reality, and the only ac- 
tion in the material world is the steady disap- 
pearance of matter, when there is neither ma- 
terial sense nor anything cognisable to the hu- 
10 man sense left. "Error urged to its final limits, 
is self - destroyed," owing to the action of 
"Truth, which sweeps away the . . . mor- 
tal illusion" ("Science and Health," p. 476, 
line 7; p. 403, line 19). 



15 



THOU SHALT NOT BE FORGOTTEN 



No one can ever know what evil is, how it 
originated, or why it disappears, as at best it 
is merely a false illusionary appearance which, 

20 gradually vanishing, enables the world of 
reality to be seen clearer and clearer because 
Truth and its manifestation exists. When ulti- 
mately the material man apparently wakes up 
to find himself a perfect being in heaven, "the 

25 former troubles are forgotten" (Is. 65:16). As 
the Bible states, they "shall not be remembered, 
nor come into mind" (Is. 65:17). Evil has no 
existence, for that which is real must be per- 
manent. The best definition of the material 

30 world is that it is merely a suppositional oppo- 



28 

1 site world to heaven. "God, good, being ever 
present, it follows in divine logic that evil, the 
suppositional opposite of good, is never pres- 
ent" ("Science and Health," p. 72, line 21). 
5 If God knew evil, it would be real and perma- 
nent, part of heaven for "Whatsoever God 
doeth, it shall be forever, nothing can be put 
to it, nor anything taken from it" (Ecc. 3:14). 
"Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil" 

10 (Hab. 1:13). "Because the former troubles are 
forgotten and because they are hid from mine 
eyes" (Is. 65:16), no good can ever be lost, 
destroyed, or forgotten (Is. 44:21), for all that 
is good about you, all that anyone cares for 

15 in you, is part of God. "I shall be satisfied, 

when I awake with thy likeness" (Ps. 17:25). 

Mortal mind often claims that because we 

know evil, God cannot know less than we. It is 

as impossible to know evil or error as it is to 

20 know that two time two equals five, for error 
has no principle. Hence God, infinite Mind, 
cannot know evil, and yet it is not impossible 
for God to have a suppositional opposite, as 
everything the material man appears to know 

25 has a suppositional opposite. A supposition 
never was made; its existence is suppositional, 
therefore, the material man and evil, his father, 
is a lie as Jesus declared. God is Spirit, and 
matter its suppositional opposite. God is good 

30 and good is real ; evil is immaterial, unreal, and 



29 

1 impermanent. The real man is God's idea of 
Himself, His reflection, the man we shall put 
on (Eph. 4:24; Col 3:10) when we have 
obeyed the instruction of Paul and put off the 

5 old man (Eph. 4:22; Col. 3:9) its counterfeit. 

EVIL IS NOT REAL 

Everything in the material world is more or 
less evil. The Bible teaches that "all unright- 

10 eousness (not right thinking) is sin" (I John 
5:17), and Jesus declared that the devil was "a 
liar and the father of it," defining devil as a 
mortal full of evil, for he "cast out devils" 
(Matt. 12 :28) , or evils, leaving the mortal closer 

15 to his spiritual immortality. A lie is negation 
— absolutely nothing, and in mortals, a per- 
verted condition of mind claiming to be some- 
thing; hence everything material, everything 
unlike God, is merely delusion, absolute illusion, 

20 but not an illusion the spiritual man can suffer 
under. "He cannot commit sin, because he is 
born of God" (I John 3:9). Sin, matter, and 
evil apparently exist, but merely as a false 
claim, an utterly false conception of reality. 

25 "At best matter is only a phenomenon of 
mortal mind, of which evil is the highest 
degree; but really there is no such thing as 
mortal mind" ("Unity of Good," p. 50, line 11). 
Anything that is real, is real forever, for, 

30 as Spencer said, only the absolutely real 



30 



10 



is the absolutely enduring. So matter, mortal 
mind's false concept of substance, is unreal. It 
could never be made unreal, if it were not 
already nothing. We may now recognise the 
false claims of evil, not as realities, but as il- 
lusions, and realising the omnipotence of Spirit, 
so fulfilling the "law of Christ" (Gal. 6:2), be 
made free from the suppositional "law of sin 
and death" (Rom. 8:2). 

THINGS ARE WHAT WE THINK 



As far as you are concerned, your thought of 
a thing is all there is of the thing. Jesus made 
this perfectly clear, and his statement of the 

15 so-called law governing this fact is repeated 
five times :— Matthew 17:20; 21:21, 22; Mark 
9:23; 11:23, and Luke 17:6, showing that if 
you thought strongly enough the mountain or 
the sycamore tree would be cast into the sea. 

20 The material man being simply what he 
thinks, and this thinking, the false conception 
of mortal mind, when he thinks "I am spir- 
itual," although he is thinking a lie, as this "I" 
is a purely material thing, he is less material, 

25 as evil disappears because of its inherent na- 
ture, and the lie destroys itself. "The use of a 
lie is, that it unwittingly confirms Truth, when 
handled by Christian Science, which reverses 
false testimony and gains a knowledge of God 

30 from opposite facts or phenomena" ("Unity 



31 

1 of Good," p. 36, line 6). If the m at e r i a 1 
man could continually realise that he is 
spiritual, he would cease to exist altogether, for 
only the real spiritual man exists. This is not 
5 so effective a method of working as to know 
the truth, namely, that the real man is a spir- 
itual being in heaven now. As this fact, namely, 
that only God and His perfect world exists, 
is sufficiently realised, evil and therefore 

10 everything material, will 'be proved to have no 
permanence and therefore no existence. The 
reason why there has always been such a con- 
stant change in the views of scientific men and 
philosophers, and failure to arrive at any logi- 

15 cal explanation of the material world, is that 
there is nothing true that can be said of it ex- 
cept that it does not exist. 

DOMINION 

20 Man's only source of happiness here and now 
is God, the Principle of good; just as the basis 
of all happiness is perfect understanding, per- 
fect harmony. As our understanding of the 
nature of God unfolds in consciousness, we lose 

25 all fear and error can no longer deceive us by 
its illusory pretense of presence. This perfec- 
tion is to be found only in the kingdom of 
heaven, within or among us, and we do not 
have to go outside of ourselves or somewhere 

30 else to get within ourselves or among us. We 



32 

1 have this perfect understanding within reach 
of our thought every moment and everywhere. 
To gain happiness here and now is our duty; 
we must be happy at all times and in all places. 
5 It is a duty we owe to ourselves and to our 
God to manifest this birthright of j o y. De- 
pression does not belong to the child of God, 
and there is no other ; neither is it real, 
nor can it affect us when by thinking of 

10 heaven, and reversing the false claims error 
presents to us, we raise the level of our thought 
higher and higher until it reaches the divine. 
Then are we loyal to God, and our real spiritual 
self, the eternal Christ. "And I, if I be lifted 

15 up from the earth will draw all men unto me" 
(John 12:32). 

"For ye shall go out ivith joy, and be led 
forth with peace; the mountains and the hills 
shall break forth before you into singing, and 

20 all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands" 
(Is. 55:12). This dominion is exercised by de- 
nying error's false claims to mesmerise us into 
thinking we are in any kind of bondage. The 
world falsely believes that man must experi- 

25 ence both good and evil; error gives us pleas- 
ure, and God all the pain — so it seems to some. 
This is not even reasonable. We thus condemn 
ourselves, to unhappiness, whereas we should 
execute judgment on error and thus destroy 

30 the temptation to believe in a power and a 



1 presence other than God, who is all presence 
and from whom there can be no separation. 

THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE 

5 In order to know truth, we must recognise 
that matter is not a solid, indestructible thing, 
but a vanishing belief of which nothing true 
can ever be known except that it has no reality, 
no permanence, no existence. "There is no ma- 

10 terial truth" ("Science and Health," p. 273, 
line 2). 

Mathematically we know that anything that 
ever was nothing, or ever ceased to exist, can- 
not be real, whatever it may appear to be; 

15 therefore evil must be unreal, however real it 
may appear, and no logical mind could believe 
it to be eternal. Some people believe that what 
we think is evil, is not evil at all, but hidden 
good. This is impossible, for evil cannot be 

20 good, nor anything more or less than evil, and 
when we know the truth about it, namely, that 
it is unreal it disappears. "Theij that war 
against thee shall be as nothing" (Is. 41:12). 
Jesus also said: "// the Son therefore shall 

25 make you free, ye shall be free indeed" (John 
8:36). This means that if we are set free by 
the realization of God, Truth, then we are 
freed permanently, unlike the temporary free- 
dom obtained by the use of the human mind, 

30 whose outcome is like unto itself, further evil. 



34 

1 "A house divided against a house falleth" 
(Luke 11:17). 

Not only the truth about evil must be real- 
ised, but of far greater importance is the un- 
5 derstanding of absolute good, the mental realiz- 
ation of the allness of God and His manifesta- 
tion, which permanently lessens our liability to 
think evil. This divine action of God on man 
which comes to us when we form a concept of 

10 it, or treat, is called the Holy Ghost; the spirit 
or holiness of the truth that abides "with you 
forever" (John 14:16), and heals and "shall 
teach you all things' 9 (John 14:26). 

To illustrate, place several sheets of dirty 

15 paper in front of a light. The light stands for 
the real man, the papers represent the mist of 
matter, and the dirt, sickness, sin, etc. When 
one of the papers is removed, this indicates 
that some of the mist of matter has disap- 

20 peared and the real man is then seen more as 
he really is, namely, thinking of good instead 
of evil, just as the light is seen more clearly. 
Treatment or the thinning of the mist of mat- 
ter always results in the real man being seen 

25 more as he really is, namely, thinking of good. 

THE MATERIAL WORLD 

God, as the Principle of good cannot know 

of the material world. If God knew of mat- 

30 ter, some portion of God would be unemployed 



35 

1 when matter disappeared, whereas God is in- 
finite. If God knows evil, He must have or- 
dained it to punish the human beings He made 
so badly that they could not help sinning, for 
5 God, being infinite Mind and eternal cause, 
must be omniscient and omnipotent. God, be- 
ing omnipotent, would destroy evil instantly if 
He knew of it, or else He would not be good; 
if not good, then He would not be omnipotent. 

10 This is one of the proofs of the non-reality of 
everything material and the reason why we 
"shall be delivered" (Joel 2:32), for if God 
knew evil it would be permanent. 

While nothing true can be said of the ma- 

15 terial world except that it does not exist, for 
the purpose of knowing how quickly and easily 
to get rid of evil, you can look upon it in 
various ways, each more or less accurate, but 
all theoretical, as you can only know 

20 truth. 

The material man is hypnotised by mortal 
mind into all of his troubles, hypnotised by the 
false thoughts that come to him, making him 
believe in the reality of the evil around him. 

25 Viewing the material world in this way, we see 
that the only work to be done is to de-hypnotise 
ourselves so as to cease seeing the evil. 

A DREAM 

30 The whole of the material world, with its 



1 material phenomena, "is an elaborate counter- 
feit of the spiritual realities of all things, at 
best merely a dream, ... a mesmeric sleep, 
but without even a real dreamer" (see "Life 
5 Understood," by F. L. Rawson). Shakespeare 
in "The Tempest" writes: "We are of such 
stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life 
is rounded with a sleep." The material world 
is no more real than the world we see in a 

10 dream, but the latter does not as a rule agree 
with what we call natural science, while the 
thoughts that come to us in the day-time are 
more or leas in accord with it, since we are 
all more or less dreaming the same dream, 

15 and consequently see matter alike. 

One person in a dream cannot communicate 
with another person in his dream, any more 
than one person who is hypnotised into believ- 
ing that he is at sea drowning can know any- 

20 thing about another person who is hypnotised 
into believing that he is on an island starving 
to death. The material man is a dream man in 
a dream world, whose appearance and seeming 
activity is due to the existence of the world of 

25 reality. "Who will say, . . . that this 
dream — rather than the dreamer — may not be 
mortal man? Who can rationally say other- 
wise, when the dream leaves the mortal man 
intact in body and thought, although the so- 

30 called dreamer is unconscious? . . . there 



10 



37 

should be but one fact before the thought, 
namely, spiritual existence. In reality there is 
no other existence" ("Science and Health," 
p. 491, line 29). 

The value of this view is that it gets us away 
from all thought of any reality in the evil, and 
we have but to awake, as the Bible so often 
points out, and see things as they really are, by 
reversal of the false material testimony. 

THE METAPHYSICAL VIEW 



In this view everything material may be 
looked upon as something purely subjective, 
namely, a false mental concept entertained by 

15 mortal mind by means of our so-called material 
selves. The material man appears to have ex- 
traordinary powers when even a few of his 
limitations disappear, and this apparent ac- 
tivity, counterfeiting the infinite power of the 

20 one divine Mind, has deluded many into think- 
ing that the real spiritual man exists in the 
material person. This is because they confuse 
the individualised part of subconscious mind 
with the spiritual man, made in the image and 

25 likeness of God, reflecting good only. This 
"lower so - called mind" ("Science and Health," 
p. 377, line 21), otherwise known as subjective 
mind, means the sum total of all the evil 
thoughts which constitute the material world, 

30 and which, sweeping over the conscious or 



38 

1 human mind, known as the material man, make 
him do, say, and think whatever the condition 
of his mind permits. 

When matter is seen to be purely subjective, 
5 we then see that there are no solid material 
things or undesirable conditions to alter; all 
that has to be altered is our thought. When a 
person is said to be "thinking" or "picturing" 
material things what theoretically happens is, 

10 that mortal mind is causing him to believe in 
the reality of evil, and he has the evil mani- 
fested if caused to think strongly enough. Every 
thought, either of good or evil, is followed 
by a similar effect, to a greater or less extent. 

15 It is easy enough to keep the evil thoughts out 
of the conscious mind; the difficulty hitherto 
has been to destroy the evil in the subconscious 
mind. This is now comparatively easy, as it 
is done in a scientific manner, by the denial 

20 of evil, and the realization of perfection, the 
human mind then being susceptible to better 
and better thoughts. 

The true position is, that there is no patient 
to heal, and no practitioner to treat, as both 

25 are the real spiritual beings, falsely seen by 
mortal mind as material beings, the mist of 
matter hiding the reality from us. When our 
own false concept is corrected the patient is 
then seen more as he really is instead of in ac- 

30 cordance with our false concept, and the prac- 



39 

1 titioner is seen treating instead of thinking of 
material things. The practitioner, while being 
only mortal mind's imaginary man, apparently 
is able to heal and do marvellous things, for 
5 the thinning of the mist of matter enables his 
real self to be seen more as it really is, and 
there being only one subconscious mind, the 
evil disappearing in his subconscious mind dis- 
appears in the subconscious mind of everyone 
10 else. 

THE MATHEMATICAL VIEW 

Heaven is a world of four dimensions of 
which we see three, and therefore see every- 

15 thing in a false, limited way; the fourth di- 
mension being infinity which absorbs the other 
dimensions of length, breadth, and height. "I 
. . . pray . . . that ye, . . . may 
be able . . . to comprehend what is the 

20 breadth, and length, and depth, and height, 
and . . . the fullness of God" (Eph. 
3:14, 19). "/ . . . saw the holy city 
. . . And the holy city lieth foursquare" 
(Rev. 21:1, 2, 16). "This city is wholly spir- 

25 itual, as its four sides indicate" ("Science 
and Health," p. 575, line 20). In other words, 
in heaven there is no space; there is nothing 
but God and the manifestation of God fill- 
ing all space. Your spiritual self is in the 

30 same place as "two time two is four." God is 



40 

1 in the same place as "the principle of mathe- 
matics." "Two times two is four" is neither 
inside nor outside of "the principle of mathe- 
matics." Neither is man in God, nor God in 
5 man. You can say that "man is in Mind," in 
the same way that you would say that "I will 
bear that in mind." Man is the manifestation 
of God, Principle, and manifests or expresses 
God. 

10 The value of this view is that we know that 
everything we see around us is something con- 
nected with our spiritual selves, and that "ma- 
terial belief, in all its manifestations, reversed, 
will be found the type and representative of 

15 verities, priceless, eternal, and just at hand" 
("Miscellaneous Writing s," p. 60, line 27) . 
"For the invisible things of him from the 
creation of the world are clearly seen, being 
understood by the things that are made" 

20 (Rom 1 :20) "Christian Science translates Mind, 
God, to mortals. It is the infinite calculus de- 
fining the line, plane, space, and fourth dimen- 
sion of Spirit" ("Miscellaneous Writings," 
p. 22, line 10). 



25 



THE NATURAL SCIENCE VIEW 



In this view, thought may be spoken of as a 

high tension electrical current, and thought 

after thought sweeps over the human mind, 

30 which may be likened to an electrical trans- 



41 

1 mitter, vibrating to these thoughts. (See "Life 
Understood," by F. L. Rawson) . "Electricity is 
. . . the least material form of illusive con- 
sciousness . . . which destroys itself" and 
5 "which counterfeits the true essence of spir- 
ituality or truth, — the great difference being 
that electricity is not intelligent, while spir- 
itual truth is Mind" ("Science and Health," 
p. 293, lines 3, 17). Every sin, every dis- 

10 ease, and every evil thought has its own respon- 
sive cell in the subconscious mind. If there are 
small electrical particles, "thought germs" 
("Science and Health," p. 164, line 16), on 
the fear cell, like pitch on a tuning fork, 

15 and fear thoughts sweep over the mind, the 
cell will vibrate synchronously with the fear 
thoughts and the man will be afraid as 
long as this class of thoughts are passing over 
his conscious mind causing it to vibrate in uni- 

20 son with the subconscious mind. On the other 
hand, if the fear cell is perfectly clean of any 
particles, it will never vibrate with fear 
thoughts and he can never be afraid. When 
the human mind is divested of all these so- 

25 called material particles, it is then unable to 
think evil thoughts. This is the pure, sinless 
human mind. "Let this mind be in you, which 
was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5), in order 
that "The prince of this world cometh and hath 

30 nothing in me" (John 14:30). 



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1 THE MIST OF MATTER 

Probably the best way of viewing the ma- 
terial world is that it consists of a series of 

5 moving pictures that apparently flash by, or 
adjacent pictures seen rapidly one after an- 
other. "Mind-pictures" ("Unity of Good," 
'Summary'). "Evil . . . is a picture of 
error throughout" ("Science and Health," 

10 p. 526, line 14). Just as there is no move- 
ment in the pictures seen on the screen in 
a theater, nor are the actors in the pictures 
the real people, so is there no movement 
or reality in these material pictures hiding 

15 heaven from us, but all of the good, allof 
the love, life, joy, beauty, movement, etc., seen 
through these pictures is m^de by God and 
is therefore permanent and eternal. All of the 
evil in these pictures is merely the mist of mat- 

20 ter, small electrical particles of which the ether 
or the sum total of all these pictures is com- 
posed, which apparently distorts and hides the 
good from us. "The creations of matter arise 
from a mist or false claim, or from mystifica- 

25 tion" ("Science and Health," p. 523, line 8). 
All that anyone cares for about you, all the 
activity, the good, the love, etc., is part of you, 
part of the world of reality which comes shin- 
ing through these pictures, giving them their 

30 delusive sense of reality. 



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1 None of the good can be destroyed as it is 
part of heaven, but on account of the mist of 
matter being thicker in the pictures very often 
less of it is seen. Sometimes the mist is so thin 
5 that we call the evil good, whereas "there is 
none good . . . but God" (Matt. 19:17). 
All of the evil in these pictures is merely an 
apparent absence of good, and is due to the 
thickness of the mist of matter. This mist, or 

10 "mystification," gradually vanishes because of 
its inherent nature, the quality of self-disap- 
pearance, until ultimately it all disappears 
when we see everything very good. 

The sum total of all the pictures constituting 

15 the material world, that is, every so-called ma- 
terial thought that ever made a man apparently 
think, say, or do anything existed, as far as they 
could be said to exist, as an illusive, contradic- 
tory opposite to true thoughts before the start 

20 of what is called the material world. "Sin ex- 
isted as a false claim before the human concept 
of sin was formed" ("Retrospection and In- 
trospection," p. 67, line 1). Because of 
false concepts of time and space these pic- 

25 tures appear as though covering periods of 
time and are apparently seen, one after an- 
other, in rapid succession. Therefore, every- 
thing the material man is going to do, say, or 
think is apparently fixed in these pictures, and 

30 he cannot help doing the evil he does, until 



u 

1 someone prays rightly for him or he prays 
rightly for himself. Pride, condemnation, criti- 
cism, cruelty and all evil is part of these pic- 
tures constituting the punishment we receive 
5 when we admit the reality of anything evil by 
thinking evil. 

As there is no reality in these pictures hid- 
ing heaven from us, the only cause is God, and 
the only effect, the manifestation of God. 

10 There is no action or movement in the pictures 
around us, "no life, truth, intelligence, nor sub- 
stance" ("Science and Health," p. 468, line 9), 
or good in the material world. The only 
thing that ever takes place in the pictures 

15 is the steady thinning of the mist of matter, 
when heaven is seen more and more as it 
really is. This apparent action counterfeits the 
only real activity, the knowledge or thinking 
of God, as everything material is the opposite 

20 of Spirit. 

The Sermon on the Mount can and shall be 
lived by the men of today, as the instruction 
given therein by Jesus, the great Example, is 
now being rapidly and rightly understood by all 

25 earnest and practical spiritual workers. 

THE END OF THE VEIL OF MATTER 

The life of the material universe may be said 

to consist of a succession of groups of adjacent 

30 pictures, hiding heaven from us, each succes- 



45 

1 sive period of time consisting of a group of 
these dream pictures, and each group extend- 
ing over a gradually diminishing period of 
time. These pictures are the mist that went 
5 up from the earth, and their evolution from 
start to finish is set forth in the first chapter 
of Genesis. (See "Life Understood," by F.L.Raw- 
son). Each group of these pictures is a repe- 
tition of the same events in the past, false 

10 views of the real world, each event covering a 
shorter period of time and appearing a little 
different as the mist of matter is steadily thin- 
ning. These successive veils of matter, gradu- 
ally reducing in length of time as the evil dis- 

15 appears, ultimate in the final disappearance of 
everything that apparently hides the world of 
reality from us, and the last veil of material 
errors lifted forever reveals everything as 
"very good" (Gen. 1:31). "When the heart 

20 shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken 
away" (II Cor. 3:16). 



Chapter III 

PREDESTINATION 

1 There are many references in the Bible to 
predestination, and Paul pointed out that 
"Whom he did foreknow, he also did predesti- 
nate to be conformed to the image of his Son" 
5 (Rom. 8:29) ; "Having predestinated us into 
the adoption of children by Jesus Christ" 
(Eph. 1:5). "Fear not, . . . for it is the 
Father's good pleasure to give you the king- 
dom" (Luke 12:52); "that . . . they 

10 which are called might receive the promise of 
eternal inheritance" (Heb. 9:15). (See Job. 
7:1; 14:5; Ps. 39:4; Dan. 8:13, 14, 19; 10:1; 
11 :27, 35 ; 12 :11 ; Hab. 2 :3 ; II Esdras 4 :33, 37 ; 
Eph. 1:9, 11; Acts 17:26, 31; Gal. 4:4; I Peter 

15 1:20; Rom. 11:20; Rev. 1:3). Predestination 
being true means that every material thought 
which makes a man do, say, or think any cer- 
tain thing at a given time, unless destroyed by 
true prayer, comes into seeming action at a 

20 predetermined time. "The way of man is not 
in himself; it is not in man that walketh to di- 
rect his own steps" (Jer. 10:32). Fatalism 
would be true were it not for the fact that 
when a man prays rightly the unsatisfactory 

25 thought disappears, either beforehand, or at 



47 

1 the time it commences to act, and also he prays 
more often in the future. Paul said that salva- 
tion is "not of yourself; it is the gift of God" 
(Eiph. 2 :8) ; in other words, it is the action of 
5 God that enables us to realise good. Jesus said : 
'Wo man can come unto me, except it were 
given unto him by my Father" (John 6:65). 
Man has therefore no free-will whatsoever, as 
the only will is the will of God. "// any man 

10 will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine" 
(John 7:17). "Pray without ceasing . . . 
this is the will of God . . . concerning 
you" (I Thess. 5:17, 18). Elven when a man 
knows how to pray rightly, and will pray, 

15 it is due to the action of God, and he cannot 
tell the form in which the improved condi- 
tion, the better belief equally predestined, is 
going to be manifested, "but they that seek 
the Lord shall not want any good thing" 

20 (Ps. 34:10). 

MAN HAS NO FREE-WILL 

Any particular historical event is simply a 
repetition of what has apparently happened be- 

25 fore, each stage of existence — material 
thoughts imitating the reality and appearing in 
their predetermined order — foreshadows what 
is to appear in the future, conforming to the 
improved conditions of each period. "History 

30 repeats itself; to-morrow grows out of to-day" 



48 

1 ("Christian Healing," p. 1, line 1). The innu- 
merable Biblical prophecies of events which 
have already been fulfilled, and others which 
are now being fulfilled, are a proof that man 
5 has no free-will. 

Another proof is that astrology is a science. 
The Bible often refers to this method of fore- 
telling the future. The reason is that the posi- 
tion of the stars and planets at any particular 

10 time, while they have no influence, enable a 
man to calculate the vibrations or thoughts 
which may be said to be acting upon the earth 
or the individual at that moment. "Thus saith 
the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen 

15 ('one who does not acknowledge the true God'; 
Webster's Dictionary) and be dismayed not at 
the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dis- 
mayed at them" (Jer. 10:2). The importance of 
accurate prophecy is that by treatment thoughts 

20 that would otherwise act in the future, can be 

dealt with now, and better beliefs manifested. 

The Great Pyramid is referred to by Mrs. 

Eddy, ("Christian Healing," p. 11, line 9), and 

Isaiah, speaking to the people of to-day 

25 says: "In that day shall there be an altar 
to the Lord in the midst of the land of 
Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the 
Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a wit- 
ness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of 

30 Egypt" (Is. 19:19-20). Pastor Russell, in 



49 

1 "Studies in the Scripture," Volume III, gives a 
very full account of the wonders of the Pyra- 
mids. Not only is the Pyramid at "the border 
of the land of Egypt," but it is in the exact 
5 centre of the land surface of the world. The 
Grand Gallery is supposed to represent the 
Christian dispensation, and the floor-line inches 
of the Gallery represent years. Pastor Russell 
points out that the birth of our Lord is indi- 

10 cated by the floor-line measurements, and con- 
cludes by saying: "Thus the Pyramid witnesses 
that the close of 1914 will be the beginning of 
the time of trouble." (See Dan. 12:1; Matt. 
24:3, 44). 

15 Another proof that man has no free-will is 
the non-reality of matter. This fact has been 
proven by the chemical experiments of Dr. 
Heydweiler, the electrical experiments of Dr. le 
Bon, mathematically by Professor Osborne 

20 Reynolds, and by direct metaphysical demon- 
stration. (See "The Non-Reality of Matter," 
by F. L. Rawson). 

ALL IS GOD AND HIS MANIFESTATION 

25 The greatest proof of all that man has no 
free-will is that only God and His manifesta- 
tion exists. God, being cause, is the only 
thinker the only actor and the only lover. Noth- 
ing actually takes place of any kind or descrip- 

30 tion except the continuous and perfect activity 



50 

1 of God. There is no material man. There is 
no material world. There is no mist of mat- 
ter. There is no evil. There is only God and 
God's manifestation, man, perfect, spiritual, 

5 and truly mental image and likeness of God. 
God thinks, and acts, and loves by means of 
man, and the only will being the will of God, 
man lives and moves and has his being in ac- 
cordance with that will, for his will is the will 
10 of God, as at any given moment the ideas that 
come to him in perfect sequence are absolutely 
the best ideas for him at that moment, God 
being the Principle of good only. 

15 MORTAL MIND 

All of the powers that the material man ap- 
pears to exert are merely changing, false men- 
tal impressions, having no power of any kind. 
So ignorant have we hitherto been, being in 

20 bondage to false conceptions, that it has been 
thought necessary to memorise a mass of use- 
less so-called facts in order to obtain needed 
knowledge. This is entirely unnecessary. 
"When mortal man blends his thoughts of 

25 existence with the spiritual, and works only 
as God works, he will no longer grope in 
the dark" ("Science and Health," p. 71, 
line 21). "And the Jews marvelled, saying, 
How knoweth this man letters, having never 

30 learned" (John 7:15). It is also recorded 



51 

1 in the Bible that it was unnecessary to tell 
Jesus of events ; for instance, he knew the 
past of the woman at the well (John 4:29), 
and often knew what was going to happen 
5 (John 17:22, 23), in fact, he must have known 
everything that was going to happen (Matt. 
24:34), with two exceptions, right up to the 
so-called end of the world. He did not know 
what hour all evil would disappear (Matt. 

10 24:36), or how many people would pray rightly 
just before that time; that is, how soon the 
mist of matter would thin sufficiently to bring 
this much to be desired salvation (I Cor. 
1:7, 10; Is. 45:17, 23). 

15 "We can know the truth more accurately 
than the astronomer can read the stars or 
calculate an eclipse. This mind - reading is 
the opposite of clairvoyance" ("Science and 
Health," p. 84, line 31). The attempt to 

20 remember called memory or psychometry, to 
foresee events called prophecy or fortune-tell- 
ing, and the so-called powers of clairvoyance, 
spiritualism, trance-speaking, thought-reading, 
divination, hypnotism, occultism, escoteric 

25 magic, etc., are all attempts to get the conscious 
mind to vibrate with the subconscious mind. 
The only true and therefore scientific way of 
obtaining any needed knowledge is by treat- 
ment — scientific right thinking — when the be- 

30 lief in limitation disappears. 



1 Directly a person thinks of anything m the 
material world, past, present, or future, he is 
in touch with the thoughts that constitute the 
thing thought of, but as l rule he is not con- 
5 scious of these thoughts because of the intense 
belief in limitation. When people have not this 
belief so intensely, very often their conscious 
mind vibrates synchronously with their sug- 
conscious mind when they appear to see again, 

10 or to foresee events, and sometimes simply 
know the thing intellectually. There is an 
enormous amount of literature attempting to 
show how the human mind can develop these 
so-called powers, thus apparently overcoming 

15 its own limitations. Such methods are merely 
additional limitations, disguised as aids. 

The five senses are entirely mental, and this 
fact can and is to-day being proved by scien- 
tific experiment. The first step is to be open- 

20 minded, for, things being what we think, we 
practically prevent any given result by fearing 
its impossibility. In heaven, man, being an 
individualized idea of the consciousness of God, 
knows instantly everything he needs. When 

25 the existence of the false material belief is 
denied and this true fact sufficiently realised, 
results come naturally without previously out- 
lining what is to happen, and consequently, 
without the evil attendant upon human pictur- 

30 ing. In this way unrecognised evil thoughts 



53 

1 disappear before they take form in so-called 
conscious thought, and no normal faculty is 
lost, but better beliefs arc recognised as each 
day brings its work as well as the power to ac- 
5 complish that work. "To know the past, pres- 
ent, and future is the office of intelligence; 
yea, it is the ever-present Truth" ("Science 
and Health," 6th edition, Vol. II, p. 15, 
line 24). 

10 The human mind is conscious only of ma- 
terial phenomena, the shadows of reality, and 
this is not knowledge, but supposition. Matter 
and its elaborate phenomena, evil and it devil- 
ish brood, sickness, sorrow, hunger, and death, 

15 cannot enter the human mind. Nothing ever 
enters the human consciousness but thoughts. 
We see all things as thoughts, for matter is 
merely the phenomena, or supposition, of mor- 
tal mind, and we attribute this perception to 

20 the physical senses, thereby finding ourselves 
their dependants. Material things are the sym- 
bols of spiritual realities, and point to Mind, 
Spirit, the substance of reality. Mortal mind's 
false concept is human limitation, and must 

25 and shall be overcome (Rev. 17:14), but if it 
were real, no power could ever overcome or 
destroy it. 

Material so-called knowledge is a knowledge 
of appearances only, yet at the same time we 

30 must conceive of a reality of which they are the 



54 

1 appearances. Thus for every reality there is 
a corresponding unreality or supposition. To 
more clearly see the reality, we must deny the 
seeming; to know man, we must deny self, the 

5 false concept made of suppositional thought, 
made out of the dust or material thought. 

SELF-MADE LAWS 

Any form of belief, if held by enough people, 

10 becomes a so-called law, apparently affecting 
more or less each individual. "The belief of 
sin . . . is an unconscious error in the be- 
ginning, . . . but afterwards it governs 
the so - called man" ("Science and Health," 

15 p. 188, line 4) . W h e n a belief is a be- 
lief in evil, people who are not protected by 
treatment, suffer in proportion to the receptive 
condition of their minds, and the intensity of 
the belief. Fear of any kind of food, disease, 

20 want, tiredness, need or want of sleep, even- 
tual death, and the effects following this fear, 
are all due to ignorance, the collective force of 
a general acceptance of suppositional evil. Oc- 
casionally there are what are called abnormal 

25 exceptions, which are, however, nearer akin to 
man's estate, as it is impossible to rise above 
the highest possibility of human achievement. 
When beliefs are overcome as the result of 
scientific right thinking, the demonstration 

30 proves the only standard to be God and His 



&5 

1 manifestation, '''for Mind can impart purity 
instead of impurity, strength instead of weak- 
ness, and health instead of disease" ("Science 
and Health," p. 371, line 28). As active 

5 thinking is the basis of true existence, all 
that is needed to overcome limitations is to 
know the true facts of existence, and this 
truth, sufficiently realised, results in the ac- 
tion of God being made manifest in the ma- 
10 terial world. "God was manifest in the flesh" 
(I Tim. 3:16). "They that wait upon the Lord 
shall renew their strength" (Is. 40:31). 

BIRTH AND DEATH 

15 There is no such thing as absolute creation. 
What is real has always existed. The creative 
activity of God is the only true and therefore 
spiritual evolution. This creation is the unfold- 
ing, or perpetual revelation, of the infinite, 

20 spiritual ideas forever subsistent in Mind, in 
God. Matter, and it kindred tribe of shadows, 
sin, disease, want, and death, based upon sup- 
position, shall all be put out of consciousness 
and forever destroyed, by reversal of our ha- 

25 bitual thought processes. This is salvation, 
based on scientific right thinking. 

The material sense of evolution is merely a 
false conception of the spiritual world as it ap- 
pears in human consciousness, apparently orig- 

30 inating in material thoughts. "Every creation 



56 

1 or idea of Spirit has its counterfeit in some 
matter-belief. Every material belief hints the 
existence of spiritual reality" ("Miscellaneous 
Writings," p. 60, line 27). Material evolution 
5 appears to take place through a process of 
birth and death, which are merely temporary 
successive changes, false views of the real and 
permanent spiritual realities, which are always 
here at hand, no matter what we may hear, 

10 see, or think to the contrary. 

At birth the human mind is of no use, but 
gradually improves until, at what is called 
death, having gradually become less material, 
it leaves the body and passes on into an- 

15 other material consciousness of heaven. "We 
pass from one dream to another dream" 
("Science and Health," p. 75, line 30). The 
human mind is a purely material thing, and is 
not improved by death for "the last enemy that 

20 shall be destroyed is death" (I Cor. 15:26). 
"His body is as material as his mind, and 
vice versa" ("Science and Health," p. 290, 
line 31). If a man is born liable to anger, 
he passes on liable to anger, if there is no treat- 

25 ment for him. If, however, he has been healed 
by treatment of the sin here, he is never again 
liable to the particular trouble of which he has 
been healed. Treatment will help a man in the 
next material state of consciousness, for the 

30 man is continually being seen more like his real 



57 

1 self owing to the thinning- of the mist of 
matter. "If Jesus awakened Lazarus from 
the dream, illusion, of death, this proved that 
the Christ could improve on a false sense" 

5 ("Science and Health," p. 493, line 28). The 
human mind continues to improve until, finally 
unable to entertain evil, it dematerialises and 
apparently wakes up to find itself in heaven. 
"/ ascend unto my Father, and your Father" 
10 (John 20:17). 

THE COUNTERFEIT 

Reincarnation is an attempt to explain the 
origin of evil, which is impossible, as no one 

15 can ever know that which has no reality. As 
heaven is, so to speak, around us, the spiritual 
man is always here, but owing to the mist of 
matter he is seen as a material man. When the 
so-called material man passes into the next ma- 

20 terial consciousness, no one can communicate 
with him, although very often a person comes 
into touch with the thoughts which constituted 
the so-called existence of that man in this 
world, and, because invisible to the senses, be- 

25 lieve that this is the real man. "Christian 
Science, . . . defines these so-called senses 
as mortal beliefs, the testimony of which can- 
not be true either of man or of his Maker" 
("Science and Health," p. 488, line 16). The 

30 real man, being in heaven, the infinite con- 



58 

1 sciousness of God, must be again seen here as 
another material counterfeit conception of the 
true idea always in Mind. 

When a person is in a state of insensibility, 
5 the human mind sometimes leaves the body, 
and often succeeds in going immense distances 
almost instantly and getting in touch with peo- 
ple who are intuitive. "Mortal mind and body 
combine as one," and yet "in sleep, memory 

10 and consciousness are lost from the body, and 
they wanted whither they will apparently 
with their own separate embodiment" ("Sci- 
ence and Health," p. 409, line 4; p. 491, line 
23). The best known case of this is that of 

15 our Lord, whose mind, after he had dema- 
terialized his body, left the tomb and was first 
seen by Mary, who thought him to be the gar- 
dener and later truly recognised him as Jesus. 
(John 20:12, 17). In the case when Jesus 

20 moved himself, the disciples, and the ship in- 
stantly to the side of the lake (John 6:21), as 
well as when "he vanished out of their sight" 
(Luke 24 :31 ; 4 :29, 30) , the mind took the body 
with it and no consciousness was lost. "Christ 

25 was the way, since Life and Truth are the 
Way that give us, through a human person, a 
spiritual revelation of man's possible earthly 
development" ("Miscellaneous Writings," 
p. 75, line 2). "Divest belief of substance 

30 in matter, and the movements and transitions 



50 

1 possible to mind would be found just as pos- 
sible to the body; and then would Spirit iden- 
tify being without the loss of body, that we sup- 
pose must occur before this science of being is 

5 acknowledged" ("Science and Health," 1st 
edition, p. 77). 

THE END OF THE WORLD 

Nearly everyone agrees that some great 

10 change is coming over the world, but there are 
a great many opinions as to what that change 
is going to be. No possible change agrees with 
religious, scientific, and metaphysical knowl- 
edge except the final disappearance of matter, 

15 and consequently, the apparent awakening of 
every human being who is now "hid with 
Christ in God" to find that he is actually "in 
Christ" (Eph. 3:10). 

As matter is the basis of all evil, the "end of 

20 the world" simply means the final end of all 
evil, sin, disease, suffering, want, limitations, 
and death. Not only shall those who have a 
knowledge of true prayer be emancipated, but 
"it is written, saith the Lord, every knee shall 

25 bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to 
(acknowledge) God" (Rom. 14:11), "for they 
shall all know me, from the least unto the 
greatest of them, saith the Lord" (Jer. 31:34), 
and "all beings shall obtain gladness and joy" 

30 (Is. 51:11). No one should fear or even con- 



60 

1 template (Matt. 6:34) this miscalled end of 
the world so earnestly to be wished for, and 
which is now dawning on the vision of those 
who keep their gaze fixed on "the things ivhich 
5 are not seen : . . . but . . . which 
. . . are eternal" (II Cor. 4:18). "For this is 
good and acceptable in the sight of God our 
Saviour, Who will have all men to be saved, 
and come into the knowledge of the truth" 

10 (I Tim. 2:3, 4). 

The second coming of Christ to human con- 
sciousness (John 14:3) is the individual recog- 
nition by man of the non-reality of everything 
material, and the absolute reality and allness 

15 of God and His manifestation. This true 
knowledge of God and heaven is now coming 
to men all over the world, and with this awak- 
ening comes a fresh sense of life, peace of 
mind, and joy, and man begins to exercise his 

20 dominion over evil by actively thinking of the 
world of reality. Actively thinking of the world 
of reality is the definition of treatment, for 
this is the nature of man, made in the image 
and likeness of God, the expression or reflec- 

25 tion of God. 

Notwithstanding the fact that "the knowl- 
edge of the truth" is coming to "all men," and 
"He will destroy in this mountain the face of 
the covering cast over all people, and the veil 

30 that is spread over all nations" (Is. 25:7, 9), 



61 

1 we should not cease our work, whatever it 
may be. We must render unto Caesar the 
things of Caesar, and rely upon treatment, not 
the seeming material work, when "all these 

5 things shall be added unto you" (Matt. 6:33). 

THE BIBLE 

Man's desire and endeavor for countless ages 
has been to solve the seeming mystery of life, 

10 and for two thousand years he has struggled 
to know the truth, the truth that Jesus declared 
would make men free. 

The Bible is pre-eminently the book of the 
emancipation of man. This emancipation means 

15 his deliverance from all evil. It is impossible, 
in the light of greater understanding to-day 
and with an open-mind, to read the Bible and 
not see that this freedom is promised and the 
secret of its attainment contained therein. The 

20 traditional interpretation assumes that it is lit- 
erally impossible for us to be free, for it pre- 
sumes that man is a material being, subject to 
the elements of this materiality and dependant 
upon some mysterious power external to our- 

25 selves that will ultimately "save" us if we are 
good enough, whereas man has always been 
and always will i be perfect and governed by 
Spirit. 

There is a common element running through 

30 the texts of the Bible containing the idea of 



1 acquiring certain information, and the prom- 
ised results are all contingent upon our getting 
this information, and using it. Jesus said that 
it depended upon our keeping his saying (John 
5 8:51), that is, receiving the information he 
gave and acting upon it, as Paul said: "Prove 
all things" (I Thess. 5:21). In all these pas- 
sages we find the marvellous results that come 
from accepting this knowledge and acting upon 

10 it. The scientific wonders of to-day pale into 
insignificance when compared with the won- 
ders of the Gospel narratives, and it is either 
a fact that these records are absolutely true, 
or the whole Christian religion is a house 

15 builded upon sand. The latter is an impossi- 
bility when viewed in the light of the exper- 
ience of all who have been receptive to Truth. 
What scientific wonder of transportation 
have we to-day to compare with the instantan- 

20 eous movement of the ship across the Lake 
Tiberius ? What greater marvel, absolutely 
scientific when spiritually understood, have we 
in financial circles than the finding of money 
in the fishes mouth? And yet our Lord said 

25 we would do greater works; greater in quan- 
tity, however, not in quality. The Bible boldly 
presents the fact of the allness of God, and 
hence the omnipotence and ever-presence of 
good, and from this fact Abraham, Isaac, 

30 Jacob, Moses, Elisha, Elijah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, 



63 

1 Jeremiah, John the Baptist, Jesus the Christ, 
and His disciples down to this day have de- 
duced and so demonstrated the power of God 
to heal and take away the sins of this world. 

5 Accepting God, Spirit, as the only cause, by 
deduction we come to the realization that being 
all, and being good, there is nothing but God 
and His manifestation, and evil is merely an 
illusion of our so-called material senses them- 
10 selves equally part of this illusion. The Bible 
promise is now being fulfilled as the mist of 
matter thinning reveals to human consciousness 
the true facts of existence. 

15 THE EVOLUTION OF PRAYER 

Men have for ages broken the First Com- 
mandment through ignorance of the one true 
God. "Thou shalt have no other Gods before 
me, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven 

20 image, or any likeness of anything that is in 
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, 
or that is in the water under the earth" (Ex. 
20:3, 4). Yet men have mentally made graven 
images and likenesses of all the spiritual reali- 

25 ties in heaven by thinking of the material coun- 
terfeits. It is failure to carry out this com- 
mandment that results in all of the material 
man's troubles. 

Men have worshipped the constellations, the 

30 elements, animals, vegetables, minerals, relics, 



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1 pictures, statues, and human gods, all more or 
less having the characteristics of humanity, 
representing good and evil. When we say "the 
fire burns," we are ascribing power to that 
5 which has no other power than the seeming 
reality we give it by entertaining it in our 
thoughts, and we are punished in proportion to 
the tenacity with which we entertain the evil. 
Men have worshipped by prostration, by peti- 

10 tion, and by sacrifice. Later, men began to 
recognise that "the effectual fervent prayer 
of a righteous man availeth much" (James 
5:16), and prayed by asking as a favour or as 
a right, the response being due to the suf- 

15 ficiency of the human belief. Healing as the 
result of belief, blind faith, has been done by 
faith in drugs, charms, relics, waters, lights, 
massage, electricity, and even in God, the God 
that would relieve the suffering if we pleaded 

20 earnestly, and which He must have made if He 
could alter. 

The evolution of man's knowledge of prayer 
shows us to-day that the only reality is God, 
Truth and the manifestation of Truth. There 

25 are many erroneous beliefs about Truth, and 
these erroneous beliefs must be replaced with 
positive knowledge before correct results can be 
obtained. In no other way can we grow in the 
recognition and realisation of our divine birth- 

30 right and spiritual nature. As long as we be- 



G5 

1 lieve erroneously about spiritual things, these 
false beliefs will deprive us of the benefit that 
would otherwise come to us through a correct 
understanding of Truth. Jesus proved that 
5 there is enough truth that can be taught and 
demonstrated to human beings to enable them 
to do the things he did, and no one should 
ever be satisfied until this understanding and 
demonstration is attained. 

10 The difficulty as a rule is that a person be- 
lieves erroneously and does not know it. When- 
ever we are certain that our belief is true, we 
are believing in our illusive certainty. We have 
to "know the truth" (John 8:32), and the 

15 truth shall make us free. The human mind 
has to give way to the divine and only Mind, 
God. Christian Science reveals Love where the 
sense of hate appeared, supply in place of want, 
and Truth in place of error. This last is the 

20 worship of the one true God whom we must 
worship "in spirit and in truth" (John 4:3). 
The scientist has to bring "into captivity every 
thought to the obedience of Christ" (II Cor. 
10:5), to love God and man, and by watching 

25 the thoughts that come to him, and reversing 
the wrong thoughts, so live in the presence of 
God that he is continually thinking of abso- 
lute good. This reversal must not be done 
from a material standpoint; we must lose all 

30 sense of self and the material world, dwelling 



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1 instead upon the spiritual eternal nature of 
perfection. 
"Our Father which art in heaven, 

Our Father which art All and all in Thee, 
5 "Hallowed be thy name. 

We are mindful of the holiness of Thy nature 
and reflection. 
"Thy kingdom come. 

Thy kingdom is among us; Thou are ever- 
10 present. 

"Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 
Thy will is always being done in earth as it 
is in heaven. 
"Give us this day our daily bread. 
15 Each day Thy grace gives us all things need- 
ful. 
"And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our 
debtors. 
We owe no man anything but Thy love which 
20 we reflect to all. 

"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver 
us from evil: 
And we realise that nothing can tempt us 
from our continual thinking of Thee. 
25 "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the 
glory, forever. 
Thou art Life eternal, omnipotent Truth, 
perfect Love, and the only Mind in 
which we live, and move, and have our 
30 being, forever. 



Chapter IV 

THE MIRACLES OF JESUS 

1 Our Lord proved his knowledge of God in 
the healing of sin (Mark 2:10); by raising 
from the dead (Luke 7:11, 15; 8:41, 56; John 
11:1, 44) ; by healing "all manner of sickness 
5 and all manner of disease" (Matt. 4:23); by 
feeding thousands of people with apparently 
only a few loaves and fishes (Matt. 14:20; 
15:37) ; and by overcoming the so-called pow- 
ers of nature (Matt. 14:25; Luke 8:24; John 

10 2:6, 10; 6:21). These marvellous signs of 
power were not contrary to law, but the na- 
tural outcome and fulfillment of divine law, 
through the utilization of the power of God. 
The teachings of Jesus were understood and 

15 practised for three hundred years after his 
ascension, but were gradually lost sight of. 
The power that Jesus exercised has always 
been available, and now, owing to the recent 
rediscovery of what Jesus taught, can be uti- 

20 lised to enable humanity to cast off forever 
its false sense of limitations. 

THE KEY TO THE MIRACLES 

Although Jesus gave definite instructions as 
25 to prayer by saying: "All things whatsoever 



GS 

1 ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have re- 
ceived them, and ye shall have them" (Mark 
11:24, Eev. Ver.), also indicating that "Ye ask 
and receive not, because ye ask amiss" (James 
5 4:3), no one until recently has been able to 
understand what he actually meant. He also 
said: "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in 
my name, he will give it to you" (John 16:23), 
and again, "Ye shall know the truth, and the 

10 truth shall make you free" (John 8:32). When 
the word "name" is used it should be properly 
translated, "with the nature and characteris- 
tics of the Father." "The truth" here means 
knowing "the absolute truth" as opposed to 

15 "the relative truth" or so-called truth of the 
material world. You must not think of the 
material world in any way while treating ex- 
cept to deny its reality, for faith in anything 
other than God is believing in evil. Jesus 

20 pointed out the difference between wrong 
thinking and true prayer, the most interesting 
case probably being when the disciples were 
unable to heal the lunatic boy, and asking the 
reason, Jesus explained that by strong or hyp- 

25 notic thinking so-called miracles could appar- 
ently be done, as matter was merely the mani- 
festation of thought, and concluded by saying: 
"Hoivbeit this kind goeth not out but by 
prayer and fasting" (Matt. 17:14, 21). Fasting 

30 here means abstaining from evil. Faith, not 



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1 founded upon understanding, is always fol- 
lowed by results in accordance with the condi- 
tion of a man's mind and the thoughts coming 
to him. "Praying always . . . in the 
5 Spirit" (Eph. 6:18), "the desire of the right- 
eous shall be granted" (Prov. 10:24) ; that is, 
anyone can obtain marvellous results by true 
prayer, or treatment, as it is entirely due to 
the thinning of the mist of matter, or the ap- 

10 parent action of God upon the human mind 
which results in right thinking. 

When you pray, you must "know the truth" 
namely, that the real spiritual man has every- 
thing he can possibly need, then you, the seem- 

15 ing material being shall have what you need, 
that is, you will be out of your human diffi- 
culty. While you can never tell what will be 
the form of good obtained after the treatment, 
you can be absolutely certain that the want 

20 will disappear. You should never ask for any 
specific thing; you have only to realise that 
God, being divine Principle, the source of all 
spiritual supply, brings instantly everything 
the real man needs, whereupon you are seen 

25 more like your real self, who is the knowledge 
of God, knowing instantly the supply of every 
need. 

SCIENTIFIC EESULTS 

30 All marvellous results are scientific and the 



1 secret of divine protection from all want is the 
realization of God, and the real man's unity 
with God, and his consequent knowledge of 
any idea needed. The chief thing to recognise 
5 is that man is not a material being, but that 
he is, always has been, and always will be an 
indivisible part of God's infinite consciousness, 
a perfect spiritual being, "made in the image 
and likeness of God." Sometimes this is not 

10 readily seen as "Ye know not what manner of 
spirit ye are of" (Luke 9:55). While it can 
be proved by logic that man is spiritual, more 
often it is necessary, in order to be sure of it, 
for a man to act as if this fact were true, get- 

15 ting his realization of the spiritual idea of God 
with such clearness as to result in some so- 
called miracle. 

Naturally the healing of sin, namely, wrong 
thinking as "A 1 1 unrighteousness is si n" 

20 (I John 5:17), is the purpose of all knowledge, 
and the first result of knowing how to think 
scientifically is to obtain an absolutely certain 
method of getting rid of sin in oneself. "The 
Lord shall deliver me from every evil work" 

25 (II Tim. 4:18). "Being made free from sin, 

ye became the servants of righteousness" 

(Rom. 6:17, 18). "The Son of man hath 

power on earth to forgive sins" (Matt. 9:6). 

Secondly, when your realization of God and 

SO heaven is sufficiently clear, the person for 



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1 whom you are treating will be healed instan- 
taneously of sin, disease, want, or any other 
trouble. There is no limit whatsoever. "With 
God nothing shall be impossible" (Luke 1:37). 

5 "Behold, I am the Lord . . . is there any- 
thing too hard for me?" (Jer. 32:27). "God 
shall supply all your need" (Phil. 4:19). 

Finally, as the outcome of persistent treat- 
ment, you must obtain perfect peace of mind 
10 and happiness, for "my presence shall go with 
thee" (Ex. 33:14), until ultimately all limita- 
tions disappear. "Behold, I make all things 
new" (Rev. 21:5). 

SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MALPRACTICE 

All authorities now teach that every thought 
we think has an effect either for good or evil, 
in accordance with the character and in pro- 
portion to the intensity of the thought. There- 

20 fore, when we think evil, we are liable to have 
the evil manifested; whereas, if we follow this 
by realising perfection, the harm is undone 
and good follows. This is the covenant of sal- 
vation. It is impossible, however, for us to 

25 tell what is good for ourselves, let alone some- 
one else, consequently, we must not mentally 
outline the form of good desired, but think 
only of the highest good, God and His mani- 
festation. "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all 

30 the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there 



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1 is none else" (Is. 45:22). We have to lose all 
sense of a material world, and actively, con- 
sciously think of God, absolute good. Then 
"we look not at the things which are seen, but 
5 at the things which are not seen; for the 
things which are seen are temporal; but the 
things which are not seen are eternal" (II Cor. 
4:18). When we cease to think evil and keep 
our thoughts stayed on "the things which are 

10 not seen," namely, the world of reality, the 
evil, which is temporal, disappears and good is 
found at hand. 

There is fortunately, a fixed rule which en- 
ables a person to determine the nature of 

15 prayer. "Believe not every spirit, but try the 
spirits whether they are of God" (I John 4:1). 
This rule enables you to distinguish between 
scientific mental practice and malpractice. If 
you are thinking of the material man, or of 

20 anything in the material world, no matter 
what you are thinking of them, no good what- 
soever is being done. "The wrong method is 
capable of evil, and is mesmerism, of which 
the lowest natures are capable. The scientific 

25 method is without power to do evil" ("Sci- 
ence and H e a 1 1 h," 1st edition, p. 430) ; 
that is, if you are thinking of God, of the 
Christ, of heaven, or of the spiritual man, 
you are being helped, your patient is being 

30 helped, and everyone is benefited, as some of 



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1 the mist of matter has disappeared forever. 
"For whosoever is born of God overcometh the 
world" (I John 5:4). 

5 FOLLOW ME 

When Jesus said: "// any man will come 
after me, let him deny hims&lf, and take up 
his cross daily, and follow me," many have 
thought that he meant that we had to live a 

10 sacrifical life, whereas you must "Offer the 
sacrifices of righteousness and put your trust 
in the Lord" (Ps. 4:5). We have nothing to 
sacrifice but the wrong thoughts that come to 
us each day, and we do this by thinking right- 

15 ly; that is, thinking of absolute perfection, in- 
stead of evil. We must deny that man is ma- 
terial, reversing the evil thoughts that come to 
us tempting us to believe in a power or pres- 
ence other than God, and realise man's spir- 

20 itual eternal nature by following our Lord in 
thought to God. We should never think of our 
fellow-man or ourselves as material beings, 
nor should we ever think of material things 
except to deny the existence of the evil, and 

25 realise the ever-presence of omnipotent Life, 
Truth and Love. Whenever a person does 
what seems wrong to you, "What is that to 
thee? follow thou me" (John 21:22). 

Christian Science denies sin, evil, disease, 

30 poverty, and death, but does not accuse man 



1 as its procurer. Shakespeare, in "Measure 
for Measure," Act II, Scene 2, writes: "Con- 
demn the fault, and not the actor of it," for 
no man is responsible for the evil. Loving 
5 "thy neighbor" (Matt. 19:19) as Jesus "loved 
you" (John 15:12), never criticising, thinking, 
or talking of others, unless realising the noth- 
ingness of the evil and the perfection of the 
spiritual idea of God, gives the proof so essen- 
10 tial to that practical love which heals and frees 
humanity from all evil. 

CHOOSE LIFE 

Life is governed by law, the law of absolute 

15 perfection, and any opposition to this funda- 
mental law of good is impossible. So-called 
material laws are but approximations of one 
divine law, and until a man recognises this im- 
mutable law and conforms his every thought 

20 in obedience thereto, he must seemingly live 
in opposition to it, apparently governed by the 
opposite thoughts of evil, reaping as he sows. 
To every man it is offered to "Choose you this 
day whom ye shall serve" (Jer. 24:15), there- 

25 fore "choose life" (Deut. 30:19), for "Ye can- 
not serve God and mammon" (Luke 16:13"). 
Any seeming opposition to the ruling law of 
absolute good can be at best only a series of 
attempts and failures, fruitless experiments 

30 unwittingly confirming the divine order of 



1 reality. Inevitably the goal reached will be 
the same, eternal good, so it but remains 
whether you shall struggle on against sin, dis- 
ease, and poverty, or, admitting the omnipot- 

5 ence of God, be the means whereby progress, 
freedom, and joy replace limitations. 

THE BASIS OF SCIENTIFIC RIGHT 
THINKING 

10 "He that believeth on me, the works that I 
do shall he do also; and greater works than 
these shall he do; because I go unto my 
Father" (John 14:12). Jesus affirmed this 
statement when he said: "These signs shall 

15 follow them that believe; In my name shail 
they cast out devvls" (Mark 16:17). Thought 
theoretically exists as a mortal concept exter- 
nal to man, and thought after thought sweeps 
over the human consciousness. If you see a 

20 man in pain and think he is in pain, the pain 
is temporarily worse according to the intensity 
with which you are thinking of the pain. This, 
although but a temporary injury, is absolutely 
wrong, as you are both just as liable to this 

25 class of wrong thoughts in the future. 

As true prayer is the affirmation of exist- 
ing perfection, the basis of scientific right 
thinking is the use of the denial and the af- 
firmation. The denial of the evil, or unreal, 

30 destroys the evil thoughts that come to us, and 



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1 the affirmation of perfection purifies the hu- 
man consciousness and gives understanding of 
absolute good. "For the grace of God that 
bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 
5 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness, . . . 
we should live . . . righteously . . . 
in this . . . world" (Titus 2:11, 12). "I 
will that thou affirm constantly" (Titus 3:8). 
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose 

10 mind is stayed on thee" (Is. 26:3). 

The denial and affirmation are often re- 
ferred to in the Bible. "That he may know to 
refuse the evil, and choose the good" ( Is. 
7:15). "He shall give his angels charge over 

15 thee, to keep thee in all thy ways" (Ps. 91:11). 
"God made . . . the greater light to ride 
the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, 
. . . and to divide the light (absolute 
good) from the darkness" (relative good) 

20 (Gen. 1:16, 17, 18). The d e n i a 1 is the 
angel Michael (Rev. 12:7; Jude vs. 9), and the 
affirmation the angel Gabriel (Dan. 9:21; 
Luke 1:19). They are also spoken of as the 
"rod of God" (Job 21:9), the "rod, . . . 

25 and . . . staff" (Is. 10:24), and "thy 
rod and thy staff" (Ps. 23:4). Mrs. Eddy, in 
"Science and Health," p. 421, line 15, writes: 
"Insist vehemently on the great fact which 
covers the whole ground, that God, Spirit, is 

30 all, and that there is none beside Him. There 



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1 is no disease," all is God, Spirit, and the mani- 
festation of Spirit. "So then with the mind I 
myself serve the law of God" (Rom. 7:25). 
Every wrong thought, even a thought of in- 
5 harmony, a thought which if carried into effect 
would harm anyone, must be reversed by deny- 
ing its existence, dwelling in thought upon the 
existing perfection in the world of reality. 
When you see a man in pain, and you know the 

10 truth, namely, that, in the world of reality, 
there is no pain, the truth will make him free, 
as directly you stop thinking the evil thoughts, 
they disappear. This is the denial of the evil 
and results in the pain thoughts disappearing, 

15 but affords only temporary relief, for the man 
is just as liable to be in pain should this class 
of thoughts come again. 

THE WORD OF TRUTH 

20 To give permanent help, what is called in the 
Bible "the two-edged sword of truth" (Gen. 
3:24; Heb. 4:12; Rev. 1:16), must be used, 
and, after the sharp denial of the evil, you 
must immediately affirm the opposite existing 

25 good. "Exert yourself to stand approved with 
God as a skillful workman, rightly treating the 
word of truth" (II Tim. 2 :15. Correct transla- 
tion) . This dwelling continually in thought upon 
the world of reality — "praying without ceasing" 

30 — means the ultimate purification of the human 



1 consciousness "the prince of this world cometh, 
and hath nothing in me" (John 14:30), that 
is, no evil thoughts can affect you. "The Lord 
shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion" 
5 (Ps. 110:2), "as it is written, There shall 
come out of Zion, the Deliverer, and shall turn 
away . . . thy sins" (Rom. 11:26, 27). 

"God created man in his own image . . . 
male and female created he them" (Gen. 

10 1:27), so you, the spiritual being, has the 
mental characteristics of the male and the fe- 
male. Likewise there are no separate kinds 
of beings "for ye are all one in Christ Jesus" 
(Gal. 3:28), "the power of God and the wis- 

15 dom of God" (I Cor. 1:24). Man, not the 
mortal, but the spiritual being, individualises 
the power of God, and as we "rightly treat" 
the evil disappears. "He made two cherubims 
of . . . one piece" (Ex. 37:7), which 

20 typify the denial and the affirmation, or the 
male and female, from between which the 
Word of God destroys the evil. 

"You can never demonstrate spirituality 
until you declare yourself to be immortal and 

25 understand that you are so. Christian Science 
is absolute; it is neither behind the point of 
perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at 
this point and must be practised therefrom. 
Unless you fully perceive that you are the 

30 child of God, hence perfect, you have no Prin- 



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1 ciple to demonstrate and no rule for its dem- 
onstration. By this I do not mean that mor- 
tals are the children of God, — far from it. In 
practising Christian Science you must state 
5 its Principle correctly, or you forfeit your 
ability to demonstrate it" (From a letter writ- 
ten by Mrs. Eddy to a student and published 
in "The Sentinel," Sept. 3rd, 1910). 

No words can emphasise the importance of 

10 constant and persistent reversal of error, and 
we cannot be too severe on the evil nor too 
tolerant of the individual, forgiving, or treat- 
ing, seventy times seven (Matt. 18:22). When 
you are thinking of the material difficulty, 

15 whatever you are thinking of it, except to 
deny its existence, the trouble is always tem- 
porarily worse, for you are thinking that the 
evil is real, thinking that you have the diffi- 
culty, and things are as we think. When, 

20 however, you think of the world of reality, all 
of your future difficulties are permanently di- 
minished, depending upon the clearness of your 
realization of God and heaven, as the truth 
has freed or purified the portion of the con- 

25 scious mind which vibrates with the thoughts 
manifesting the difficulty. 

Every demonstration of Principle is instan- 
taneous, yet the human mind does not often 
recognise this owing to the false belief of time 

30 and space. Persistent treatment results in the 



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1 clearness of realization which provides this 
recognition and fulfillment. 

SIMPLICITY 

5 It must be remembered that treatment is 
extremely simple. It simply consists in get- 
ting right away in thought from everything 
material and realising the absolute perfection 
existing forever in the world of reality. It 

10 would be extremely easy to do this, and have 
instantaneous results, if we could completely 
lose all sense of the seeming difficulties. The 
principal point is never to allow the evil 
thoughts to enter your mind. Thoughts can- 

15 not act unless they get into your conscious- 
ness, and, when, by treatment, the thoughts 
disappear, the trouble is gone. The reversal 
of the wrong thoughts should come before it 
is even thought necessary to treat to overcome 

20 the evil, as there is in reality no evil, merely 
a mortal mind belief, and "there is no mortal 
mind out of which to make material beliefs" 
("Science and Health," p. 399, line 23.) It 
should never be necessary to treat more 

25 than once in any given case, — one sharp 
denial of the evil, followed instantly by the 
clear realization of the existence of perfection 
— each time the thought of trouble comes into 
mind, until loyality to good brings its reward. 

30 "When ye pray, use not vain repetitions" 



10 



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(Matt. 6:7). There is no separate person or 
mind, no patient to heal, no evil to overcome, 
no mist of matter: simply false beliefs, illu- 
sionary false mental impressions, which grad- 
ually disappear, and the reality is seen clearer 
and clearer, because God and His manifesta- 
tion exists. "Go thy way, . . . with a 
merry heart; for God now accepteth thy 
works" (Ecc. 9:7). 

HEALING 



In order to obtain marvellous results 
through treatment, you must not think of any- 
thing in the material world when treating; in- 

15 stead, you must actively think of the world of 
reality, consciously dwelling in thought upon 
absolute good. Never limit God, or try to 
teach God His business by outlining how the 
demonstration will be made, or by thinking 

20 that the action of God will not be seen. "It is 
the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good" 
(I Sam. 3:18). 

You must treat regularly, constantly, and 
persistently for yourself so that men "may see 

25 your good works," thus, keeping the material 
sense, hitherto thought to be you, free from 
sin, sickness, and worries, you become more 
unselfish and kinder to others and so "glorify 
your Father which is heaven" (Matt. 5:16). 

30 Then people will inquire to what this increas- 



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1 ing happiness is due and seek understanding 
thereof, and so evil shall be made to praise 
God (Ps. 76:10). We should let our example, 
and not empty words, voice the presence of 

5 God, and true humility (Micah 6:8), supplant 
the desire for personal gain and perfection, 
losing all sense of the pretended power of per- 
sonal selfhood in the omnipotence of our real 
self, God. 



10 



WATCH AND PRAY 



Our Lord has asked us to "watch and pray" 
(Matt. 26:41), that is:— 
1. Think of the world of reality, 
15 2. Deny the existence of evil, 

3. Affirm the existence of absolute perfec- 
tion. 

The nature of evil being to destroy itself, 
by reversal of the evil thoughts that come to 
20 us, we habitually come to acknowledge God in 
all His ways (Prov. 3:6), and, as a little child 
is guided, so are we led by Truth to attain the 
"peace of God that passeth all understanding" 
(Phil. 4:7). 
25 While the only reality is God and heaven, 
and good cannot be increased or anything un- 
real made real, to realise good means to feel 
it as realistically as possible, As the mist of 
matter thins this realization becomes clearer 
30 and clearer until ultimately we apparently 



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1 wake up from this material sense of unreality 
to find man is the knowledge of God, univer- 
sal good. 

5 SIGN-POSTS 

Our progress depends solely upon the num- 
ber of seconds throughout the day in which 
we are employed in realising the world of 
reality. "Wait on the Lord continually" 

10 (Hosea 12:6). Every evil thought, every 
trouble, every pain, instead of being a poor 
master, must be made an obedient servant by 
using it to turn us in thought to God. "My 
help cometh from the Lord" (Ps. 121:2). 

15 "Henceforth know we no man after the flesh" 
(II Cor. 5:16), "Be ye transformed by the re- 
newing of your mind" (Rom. 12:2). "What- 
soever things are true, . . . pure, . . . 
lovely, . . . think on these things" (Phil. 

20 4:8). 

A WARNING 

There are several different forms of so- 
called healing with the human mind, the least 

25 objectionable of which is mental suggestion, 
generally used in hospitals, but now being 
given up as it is recognised that eventual harm 
ensues upon its use. "Picturing" what is 
thought best for a person, and then dwelling 

30 upon this image with the object of bringing 



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1 it into visible manifestation, is utterly wrong, 
for it is thinking evil. If the result pictured 
is predestined, it will happen with any evil 
there is attached to it. When, however, you 
5 pray scientifically, the evil disappears and, if 
the result is the best thing for you, it will hap- 
pen, or some better belief appear. In other 
words, as this is heaven more or less hidden 
from you by the mist of matter, when you are 

10 thinking of the highest material good, you are 
merely thinking evil, and you have more or 
less evil manifested. You are not, however, 
creating, attracting, increasing, or intensify- 
ing the evil, as an evil thought is always fol- 

15 lowed by evil. When you think of the world 
of reality, this is an indication that the mist 
of matter is thinning, and is always followed 
by less evil, when heaven is seen more as it 
really is. 

20 Ezekiel points out that those who "picture" 
or image are the first to suffer (Ezk. 8:12; 
9:6, 10; Rev. 14:9, 12). This means that when 
a person relies upon his apparent powers to 
bring about so-called good, and he is sudden- 

25 ly attacked by evil, he is unable to think so- 
called good, with the result that his fear is 
intense and the evil terrible. The most im- 
portant thing that any individual can do is to 
so purify his human consciousness by daily 

30 treatment that evil thoughts cannot cause his 



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1 mind to think them. "Ye therefore shall be per- 
fect, even as your Father which is in heaven 
is perfect" (Matt. 5:48. Correct translation). 
The most dangerous of all so-called mental 
5 practices is that of mortal mind's illusion, 
namely, personal omnipotence. To believe that 
God made everything, including the material 
world is pantheism (See "Science and 
Health," p. 294, line 4), whereas God made 

10 the real spiritual world and spiritual beings. 
The material world and material beings do not 
exist. This latter is spiritual pantheism and 
truth. To think that I am God, is the evil by 
which mortal man is self-condemned (Eph. 

15 6:12), for beside God there is none else. "To 
conceive of God as resembling — in personality, 
or form — the personality that Jesus con- 
demned as devilish, is fraught with spiritual 
danger" ("Unity of Good," p. 23, line 2). 

20 No one ought to attempt any mental work- 
ing except in a truly scientific manner. The 
best way of gaining this knowledge is by a 
systematic reading of the Bible, "Science and 
Health, With Key to the Scriptures," by Mrs. 

25 Mary Baker Eddy, the latter enabling a per- 
son to understand the Bible and resulting in 
proper treating, and "Life Understood," by F. 
L. Rawson. False ideas, based on previous 
material conceptions, gradually disappear as 

30 true knowledge is gained, until one finds that, 



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1 by treatment, any obstacle can be overcome. 
This power of scientific demonstration over 
evil is a proof of the accuracy of the teaching, 
and any failure indicates ignorance or misun- 

5 derstanding thereof. "By their fruits ye shall 
know them" (Matt. 7:20). "Prove all things; 
hold fast that ivhich is good" (I Thess. 5:21). 



Chapter V 

TRUE HEALING 

1 The highest and best method of treatment is 
the realization of God. When this realization 
is sufficiently clear, the person is healed phys- 
ically, mentally, and morally. Another method 
5 where results are often more quickly obtained, 
even in the case of an experienced practi- 
tioner, is in which you deny the reality or 
existence of each difficulty connected with the 
trouble, and realise the existence of the oppo- 

10 site perfection. This method, gradually puri- 
fying the human consciousness, enables you to 
so dwell in the presence of God, that your 
simple realization of God is sufficiently clear 
to heal instantaneously. This second method 

15 results in the disappearance of the difficul- 
ties denied, but when this trouble is physical, 
no mental or moral improvement follows, so it 
is always necessary in using this method, in 
order to be helped in every way, to work 

20 against the principal evils attacking mankind, 
and for the things of Spirit. You must not 
think of the material person when treating, as 
the whole object of treatment is to think of 
the world of reality. When thinking of the 

25 person's spiritual self, you should think of the 



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1 highest self possible, namely, God, as "there is 
none else" (Deut. 4:35). 

As constant conscious union with God, 
or treatment, is the "straight . . . and 
5 narrow" way (Matt. 7:14) by which free- 
dom and happiness is attained, every 
single thing we do, whether it be for our- 
selves or others, should be preceded by 
treatment. "Are ye unworthy to judge the 
10 smallest matters?" (I Cor. 6:2). We will al- 
ways find greater benefit when we treat for 
others. 

ALL CAN HEAL 

15 All will find that they can heal, as this is 
entirely due to the thinning of the mist of 
matter, recognised, from a religious point of 
view as the action of the Holy Ghost. This ac- 
tion is "the Spirit of truth" (John 14:17), the 

20 mental realization of the truth that enables us 

to see less of the material seeming man and 

more of the real spiritual man, and it is the 

"spirit" or holiness of the truth that heals. 

If you, when praying, will not think of the 

25 patient or of the material world, but will form 
your very best concept of the world of reality, 
and realise that concept with sufficient clear- 
ness, open-mindedly, lovingly, and persistently, 
you will have an instantaneous result almost 

30 immediately. 



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1 CONCENTRATION 

Concentration is not needed in treatment, 
for concentration is what the worker with the 
human mind calls his determined thinking 
5 upon a thing with the object of bringing it 
into manifestation. When you are doing work 
that is disagreeable or from which you are 
distracted; when you are with a person who 
annoys you or when you begin to treat and 

10 distracting thoughts come into the mind, this 
does no harm, as after the difficulty is over 
and you have finished thinking these thoughts, 
you can treat just as effectively, and gradu- 
ally the only disadvantage, namely, loss of 

15 time, will be overcome, for the thinning of the 
mist of matter renders you less liable to dif- 
ficulties in the future. 

THE ETERNAL NOW 

20 The fallacy of what is called time may be 
readily discerned when it is recognised that, 
in heaven, the infinite ideas of God unfold to 
man in perfect sequence, these ideas filling all 
space and being instantly available to man, 

25 supplying every need. The only thing that 
ever appears to separate us from good, is ig- 
norance. Both past and future events are 
false mental impressions, which, when cor- 
rected in accordance with Truth, are seen 

30 more like the heavenly reality. 



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1 The "eternal now" is descriptive of the 
events of the material world, which have no 
more reality than the sense entertained of 
them. "Mind measures time according to the 
5 good that is unfolded" ("Science and Health," 
p. 584, line 5), that is, true time is the unfold- 
ing of the ideas of God to man, His conscious- 
ness. Everything in the material world, past, 
present, or future, exists now as far as any- 

10 thing material can be said to exist. "That 
which hath been is now; and that which is to 
be hath already been" (Ecc. 3:15). This fact, 
like other hitherto seeming mysteries, has al- 
ways existed, and is now being recognised and 

15 proved by demonstration. We can now pray 
so that the prayer appears to have been ef- 
fectual before we pray. When asked how to 
get rid of evil if it is nothing and does not 
exist, the answer is, "By knowing that." "Be- 

20 fore they call, I will answer; and while they 
are yet speaking, I will hear" (Is. 65:24). 

WHY A PERSON IS HEALED 

When a person treats, and he or someone 
25 else is healed, what takes place, from a na- 
tural science point of view, is that the electri- 
cal particles in front of heaven which consti- 
tute the ether short-circuit themselves and dis- 
appear in front of the spiritual reality of the 
30 practitioner treating and the patient healed. 



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1 From a religious point of view, it may be said 
that the evil disappears because the mist of 
matter thins in front of the spiritual reality 
of the practitioner and in front of the spiritual 
5 reality of the patient, when heaven is more 
clearly seen. The patient is then seen more as 
he really is, namely, well instead of ill; and 
the practitioner is seen more as he really is, 
namely, treating or actively thinking of God, 

10 because the spiritual man is the knowledge of 
God, always actively thinking of God, absolute 
good. Owing to the mist of matter both are 
seen thinking of material things until some of 
the mist disappears, when the practitioner is 

15 seen thinking of absolute good and the patient 
is seen thinking of so-called good. 

The disappearance of some of the mist of 
matter in front of the spiritual reality of the 
practitioner has nothing to do with the thin- 

20 ning of the mist of matter in front of the spir- 
itual reality of the patient, nor is there any 
reason why the mist should thin in front of 
one patient and not in front of another, ex- 
cept that there is more mist there, and more 

25 treatment needed. If we knew why the mist 
thinned or how it arose, we would know the 
origin of evil, which is impossible, as no mist 
or evil exists. It is merely an illusionary ap- 
pearance, an apparent absence of good, which 

30 mortal mind sees by means of an imaginary 



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1 thing called your material self, hitherto 
thought to be you. 

When the practitioner treats and the pa- 
tient is healed, the treatment has nothing to 
5 do with the healing, as all that ever takes 
place in the material world is the gradual 
thinning of the mist of matter. This thinning 
of the mist, otherwise known as treatment or 
the Holy Spirit which keeps the real man 

10 thinking of God and apparently acts upon the 
material man enabling him to be seen more 
like his real self, is the effect, not the material 
emolument. The practitioner cannot help any- 
one by treatment, as there is no practitioner 

15 to treat, and no patient to heal; only the 
world of reality and the mist of matter more 
or less hiding it. 

For example, look through a pair of opera 
glasses which are out of focus. The distorted 

20 view seen through the glasses represents what 
we see in the material world, and the object 
upon which the glasses are focused stands for 
the spiritual ideas coming to the real man of 
which the material man forms a concept. As 

25 the focus is adjusted, corresponding to treat- 
ment, so do we get a clearer and clearer view 
of that which really exists, changing nothing 
at all, but more clearly comprehending the 
ever-presence of perfection. 

30 Treatment is the only indication that some 



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1 of the mist of matter has disappeared, and 
you thereby see heaven more as it really is. 
The patient is then seen more like his real 
self, sometimes instantaneously and perma- 

5 nently well instead of ill, depending upon the 
clearness of your realization of God and His 
manifestation. This clearness is the natural 
outcome of persistent treatment. 

10 THE VALUE OF TREATMENT 

When a person tries to force himself to 
treat, or to do anything, the result is that he 
is unable to treat so well, and the difficulty 
in doing the thing is greater, as the mist of 

15 matter is thicker in front of his spiritual self, 
which otherwise would not have been so thick 
had there been no compulsion, and he would 
have been treating or doing the thing desired. 
When a person tries to force himself to treat 

20 he is using human will power and the evil 
thoughts are more intense, whereas, if he 
kept perfectly quiet, and waited patiently 
(Ps. 37:7), he would soon find himself treat- 
ing properly. The more one treats, and the more 

25 actively one treats, the better, as it shows that 

the mist is thinning and the evil disappearing. 

It is vitally essential that we treat as clearly 

and as often as possible (Rev. 3:3). What 

must be forced out of the human conscious- 

30 ness are the thoughts that prevent us from 



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1 treating, and this can only be done by recog- 
nising that "Ye shall not need to fight in this 
battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see 
the salvation of the Lord with you" (II Chron. 
5 20:17). With the intention of treating, we 
should quietly, but keenly, think of the world 
of reality, reversing every wrong thought, 
every thought of trouble, until we are treat- 
ing properly, with a clear realization of exist- 

10 ing perfection, and have lost all sense of the 
difficulty in our union with God. When we 
keep our minds stayed on God with singleness 
of purpose (Luke 11:34), we do not use will 
power, but the power of will, God's will con- 

15 cerning us (I Thess. 5:16, 22). 

When a man recognises that he can do noth- 
ing of himself, "The Son can do nothing of 
himself" (John 5:19), and that all of his so- 
called activity is due to the thinning of the 

20 mist of matter, he gives up trying to do 
things, and relies upon treatment, with the 
result that everything is seen more as it is in 
reality. 

25 TREATMENT 

The whole object of treatment is to think 
of the world of reality, and you can do this 
by realising God in His various aspects ("Sci- 
ence and Health," p. 465, line 9) : 
30 Life, which gives all power and strength, 



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1 and infinite ideas in perfect sequence; 

Truth, which enables man to understand the 
ideas ; 

Love, which makes man infinitely loving, 
5 and enables him to pass on the ideas ; 
Mind, which gives all the marvellous mental 
activity in heaven; 

Soul, which gives all wisdom and knowl- 
edge; 
10. Spirit, which gives all purity and holiness, 
and 

Principle, the Principle of good and all the 

other God-like qualities and attributes not 

mentioned above, such as law and order, 

15 beauty, peace, joy, substance, permanence, 

supply, abundance, etc.; 

Or you can think of God as infinite Mind, 
and of man as the infinite consciousness in 
that Mind, realising the infinite Life, infinite 
20 Truth, infinite Love, beauty, joy, abundance, 
etc., in heaven. Then think of the infinite 
ideas forever circulating throughout Mind, 
being received, re-created into new and won- 
derful combinations, and being passed on to 
25 infinite beings, giving infinite joy and hap- 
piness. 

The above method of commencing a treat- 
ment sums up the first rule: "Think of the 
world of reality," but no one should use this 
30 as a formula. Let God show you the best 



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1 method of treatment. While still thinking of 
the world of reality, reverse the various symp- 
toms of the trouble you want to overcome by 
denying the existence of the evil, and realis- 
5 ing the opposite perfection existing in heaven. 
Then, in order to obtain mental and moral 
improvement, you should, in every treatment, 
by reversal, work against fear, mortal mind, 
and false medical beliefs, and for love, wisdom, 

10 and spiritual perception, discernment, and 
understanding. Verbal treatments may be 
given to enable a person to understand how to 
handle various problems, but these treatments 
repeated, "never do the works of spiritual 

15 understanding, which regenerates" ("Science 
and Health," p. 4, line 27). These treatments 
should be studied in order that the method of 
working may be understood, but only the por- 
tions which come to you while treating should 

20 be used. "For the Holy Ghost shall teach you 
in that same hour what ye ought to say" 
(Luke 12:12). 

DAILY TREATMENT NECESSARY 

25 As our progress depends upon the realiza- 
tion of the world of reality, it is necessary to 
treat regularly for ourselves at least twice a 
day. We are then better able to reverse the 
wrong thoughts that come to us throughout 

30 the day. Whenever there is a moment to 



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1 spare you should treat for yourself or others, 
having some definite realization, thinking, for 
instance, of God as Love, and later, thinking 
of God in His various aspects as your under- 
5 standing of God increases. Whenever some 
work has to be done, better work will be ac- 
complished if you treat for a few minutes 
before beginning the work. You should never 
lose the opportunity to treat, and should use 

10 every occasion to think of the world of reality. 

For instance, when you go out of a room or 

into the street, when you turn a corner or 

cross the street, think of God. 

Some of the mist of matter disappears every 

15 time a man thinks of God and heaven. "Every 
good gift and every perfect gift is from above, 
and cometh down from the Father of lights, 
with whom is no variableness, neither shadoiv 
of turning" (Heb. 1:17). In other words, 

20 when a man thinks of God, it is the mist 
thinning and good is more apparent, the 
"perfect gift" always existing, although hith- 
erto unseen. 
We must never be satisfied with the good 

25 that unfolds to us each day, but be expective 
of greater sacrifices, not of joys, but of con- 
tentment and sloth. By reversal of our high- 
est sense of material good, we progress 
towards true immortality. Whenever our 

30 fellow-man is in need of help, we must not be 



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1 unsympathetic, but completely clear our minds 
of the false testimony presented to us, thus 
freeing both from the evil. We must think 
rightly, without the slightest regard for re- 

5 suits or reward, but because it is right. We 
then find that we love to do right, not because 
of our growing power over evil, for "the Spirit 
. . . helpeth our infirmities" (Rom. 8:26), 
but "the flesh profiteth nothing" (John 6:63), 
10 but for the reason that we love good, and re- 
joice because our "names are written in 
heaven" (Luke 10:20), for we have been loyal 
in thought to God, good only. 

15 LOVE NECESSARY 

"This is my commandment, That ye love one 
another, as I have loved you" (John 15:12). 
The class of sin most condemned by Jesus was 
in his time, as it is to-day, thoughts of pride, 

20 cruelty, criticism, self-righteousness, etc. So 
accustomed have we been in the past to bear- 
ing with this evil that we often fall into the 
same habit of thought; whereas we should 
never do, say, or think anything except with 

25 the object of helping someone or becoming 
better morally ourselves. "The wicked, through 
pride, . . . will not seek after God: God 
is not in all his thoughts" (Ps. 19:4). "First 
cast out the beam out of thine own eye" (Matt. 

30 7:5). As a rule a man who criticises others 



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has the fault in himself. "Let none of you 
imagine evil in your hearts against his neigh- 
bour" (Zech 8:17). 

Spiritual advancement depends upon the 
consecration of our every thought to the 
awakening sense of pure and holy spiritual 
consciousness. Love and virtue, wisdom and 
strength are two parts of one dissevered 
whole, and the realization of man's wholeness 
and completeness in God makes manifest to 
the world the true purpose of Life. "The 
vital part, the heart and soul of Christian 
Science, is Love. Without this, the letter is 
but the dead body of Science — pulseless, 
cold, inanimate" ("Science and Health," p. 113, 
line 5). "Give instruction to a tvise man, and 
he will be yet wiser" (Prov. 9:9). 

EVIL HAS NO POWER 

If evil were a power, or if a man could 
cause, increase, or attract evil by thinking 
evil, there would be another cause than God, 
whereas all agree that there is only one cause. 
Few people, however, carry their theories to 
a logical conclusion. The idea that one man 
can harm another by thinking evil of him, 
so-called malpractice, is a fable, a miserable 
defamation of Love. That a person can be 
hypnotised, or affected in any way by another 
person, is impossible, as we are all more or 



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1 less hypnotised into believing in the reality of 
evil, and have merely to de-hypnotise ourselves 
by knowing the truth. There is no reality in 
animal magnetism, mental assassination, mal- 

5 practice, suggestion, evil beliefs, or any other 
so-called powers, as the only power is the 
power of God, absolute good. 

TAKE NO THOUGHT 

10 Whenever you must speak, do not think out 
beforehand what you are going to say. "Take 
ye no thought how or what thing ye shall 
answer, or what ye shall say" (Luke 12:11). 
You must rely upon treatment; for instance, 

15 whenever you think that you must know what 
to say, or to do, realise that "It is not ye that 
speak, but the spirit of your Father which 
speaketh in you" (Matt. 10:20), whereupon 
some of the mist of matter disappears and 

20 you hear God speaking by means of the spir- 
ual man more as He really speaks. You will 
then realise what Jesus meant when he said: 
"For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the 
same hour what ye ought to say" (Luke 

25 12:12). In this way you learn of God, as 
"The entrance of thy words giveth light" 
(Ps. 119:130). The same thing applies to 
everything you do, "Take no thought for your 
life, what ye shall eat, neither for the body, 

30 what ye shall put on. . . . And seek not 



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1 what ye shall . . . drink, neither be ye 
of doubtful mind. . . . But seek ye first 
the kingdom of God, and all these things shall 
be added unto you" (Luke 12:22, 31). 

5 

FEAR 

Fear is the mental recognition of evil 
thoughts attacking or about to attack, and, by 
handling fear as Moses did the serpent, 

10 through the realization of God, fear becomes 
our best friend in the material world, as it 
shows when to treat, sometimes what thoughts 
to handle, and how long to treat. Fear has no 
power to harm you, "Be not afraid of sudden 

15 fear" (Ps. 3:25), for when you treat until 
the fear goes, no evil can come to you, and 
you need no longer treat. "The Lord is my 
light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? 
The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom 

20 shall I be afraid?" (Ps. 27:1). 

GIVE UP DOING THINGS MATERIALLY 
AND TREAT 

When in doubt as to what to do, the rule is 
25 to do nothing and treat. The thing that you 
will then do will be the best thing, harming 
no one, but with advantage to all. You should 
always treat for knowledge, and then act up 
to the highest sense of good possible at the 
30 moment. When anyone asks you to do some- 



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1 thing, you can always safely do what is asked 
if you treat and you have no fear after the 
treatment. "Agree with thine adversary 
quickly" (Matt. 5:25). "Whatsoever they bid 
5 you observe, that observe and do" (Matt. 
23:3). The reason for this is that what your 
fellow-man wants is what you want for him, 
and treatment indicates the disappearance of 
the evil. You can always safely give up doing 

10 things materially, no matter how necessary, 
the material steps may seem to be, and es- 
pecially if they are distasteful to you; but you 
must treat, and rely upon the treatment in- 
stead, as treatment is the only indication of 

15 the disappearance of the evil. "He that com- 
eth to me shall never hunger; and . . . 
never thirst. . . . All that the Father 
giveth me shall come to me" (John 6:35, 37). 
The reason for this is that evil cannot be in- 

20 creased, and treatment, due to the thinning 
of the mist of matter, results in the evil dis- 
appearing, when everything is seen more as it 
really is in the world of reality. Constant 
treatment brings the understanding of perfect 

25 unity of purpose. 

When you give up trying to do things mate- 
rially, and pray rightly, your difficulties dis- 
appear. "When I am weak, then am I strong" 
(II Cor. 12:10). "I can do all things through 

30 Christ which strengthened me" (Phil. 4:13). 



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1 You cannot possibly give up doing a thing 
materially, and do it by prayer instead, nor 
can anyone ask you to do anything unless it 
is the best thing for you and all concerned, 
5 as treatment always results in the disappear- 
ance of the evil. Consequently, once you 
know how to pray scientifically, you can never 
get into any difficulty by treating instead of 
doing things materially. "Be not overcome of 
10 evil, but overcome evil with good" (Rom. 
20:17). 

BLASPHEMY 

The spiritual man is the individualised idea 

15 of the consciousness or knowledge of God, seen 
by mortal mind through the mist of matter, 
by means of your so-called material self, as 
a material man thinking of material things. 
The whole of this imaginary man's troubles 

20 comes from blaphemy, setting himself up in 
opposition to God. "Blasphemy rebukes not 
the godless lie that denies Him as All-in-all, 
nor does it ascribe to Him all presence, power, 
and glory" ("No and Yes," p. 10, line 2). 

25 "Blasphemies: . . . defile a man" (Matt. 
15:19). The basis of life is that God is the 
only thinker, the only actor, the only lover, 
and the only creator. "The Son can do nothing 
of himseilf, but what he seeth the Father do: 

30 for what things soever he doeth, these also 



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1 doeth the Son likewise" (John 5:19). Never- 
theless the material man says, "I think," "I 
act," "I love," and "I create." "I regard self- 
deification as blasphemous" ("Miscellany," 
5 p. 302, line 20). The material man does not do 
any of these things, as he is merely mortal 
mind's false concept of a man, which results in 
the appearance of a man thinking, acting, lov- 
ing, and creating. God alone acts by means 

10 of our real spiritual selves. "They that are in 
the flesh cannot -please God" (Rom. 8:8). "For 
I know that in me dwelleth no good thing" 
(Rom. 7:10), yet "Whosoever is born of God 
doth not commit sin" (I John 3:9). 

15 As things are the result of thinking, if we 
think of perfection, the evil disappears. When, 
however, we think of material things, we are 
punished at once, as we are thinking evil. 
"Blasphemy has never diminished sin and 

20 sickness, nor acknowledged God in all His 
ways" ("No and Yes," p. 18, line 1). When 
we try to learn something, to do something, or 
create anything, the difficulty of accomplish- 
ment is greater; whereas, when we give up 

25 trying to do things and rely upon treatment 
instead, "Be still and know that I am God" 
(Ps. 46:10), the mist thins and we are 
seen more like our real selves, namely, think- 
ing of good, because the real man is always 

30 thinking of good. "Right thinking and right 



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1 acting, physical and moral harmony, come 
with Science" ("No and Yes," p. 18, line 8). 

GOD THE ONLY CREATOR 

5 It is axiomatic that something can never be 
made out of nothing, nevertheless people have 
thought that God made man out of nothing, 
even out "of the dust of the ground" (Gen. 
2:7), not recognising that matter merely hides 

10 the real man from us. "The off-spring of 
God start not from matter or ephemeral dust. 
They are in and of Spirit, divine Mind, and so 
forever continue" ("Science and Health," 
p. 267, line 3). God is cause, and everything 

15 that exists is the manifestation of cause and 
must partake of the nature of cause. "If ye 
had known me, ye should have known my 
Father also" (John 14:7). All of the infinite 
ideas in Mind, God, have always existed and 

20 always will exist as the manifestation of 
cause. These ideas, reflecting the whole of 
God, once created, exist forever and are always 
available in their original perfection, becom- 
ing a part of the individuality of each spir- 

25 itual being who becomes conscious of them. 

The creative activity of God means God's 
power of re - creating or re - grouping these 
ideas into new and wonderful combinations. 
Every idea that has ever existed has always 

30 existed in Mind, and these ideas are infinite 



10G 

1 in number, filling all space. No new ideas 
can ever be created. God, however, re-creates 
these ideas into new combinations by means 
of each individual man. "Mind forms ideas, 
5 its own images, subdivides and radiates their 
borrowed light, intelligence, and so explains 
the Scripture phrase, 'whose seed is in itself.' 
Thus God's ideas 'multiply and replenish the 
earth.' The divine Mind supports the sub- 

10 limity, magnitude, and infinitude of spiritual 
creation" ("Science and Health," p. 511, 
line 1). These ideas are re-created by man, 
for God works by means of man, His con- 
sciousness. "God expresses in man the in- 

15 finite idea forever developing itself, broaden- 
ing and rising higher and higher from a 
boundless basis" ("S c i e n c e and Health," 
p. 258, line 13). 

This re-creation goes on forever, so man is 

20 always having new and wonderful ideas to 
understand and enjoy. He is constantly re- 
creating new combinations of ideas, and has 
re-created an infinite number of every com- 
bination of ideas that God has created. He 

25 receives happiness from this recreation, and 
greater happiness by expressing these ideas to 
others, as well as the additional happiness of 
receiving the ideas others express to him. As 
there are infinite ideas, these ideas unfold to 

30 man in constant succession, with unfailing 



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1 regularity and perfect sequence, for God is 
the source or Principle of perfect supply. 
When man receives an idea he does not take 
it away from anyone, as every idea is a per- 

5 manent part of God's manifestation. God 
would not be complete if any idea could ever 
be lost, or had not existed at any time, as 
every idea is part of the infinite number of 
ideas that constitute the omnipresence, om- 
10 niscience, and omnipotence of God. When 
man expresses an idea he does not lose it him- 
self, as every idea forms a part of his con- 
tinually increasing knowledge of God. 

15 HEAVEN 

We can now prove what heaven is like, for 
when we think of the world of reality, and 
realise sufficiently clearly, by reversal, the 
absolute good existing in heaven, some of the 

20 mist of matter disappears and we see things 
taking place more as they do in heaven. 

Heaven is a perfect state of consciousness. 
In heaven, man has Life eternal; a constant 
succession of perfect combinations of spiritual 

25 ideas come to him throughout eternity; he 
continually re-creates these ideas into equally 
perfect combinations; he expresses these ideas 
to an infinite number of spiritual beings whom 
he knows, giving infinite joy and happiness, 

30 and he is always becoming conscious of new 



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1 and wonderful beauties of an infinite number 
of spiritual worlds. "In my Father's house 
are many mansions" (John 14:2). He ex- 
presses infinite Life, infinite Truth, infinite 
5 Love, wisdom, knowledge, beauty, joy, and the 
allness of God. In heaven, man has no limi- 
tations of any kind except that he can never 
know the whole of the world of reality; he 
has, however, the power of knowing any idea 
10 he desires, spiritual desire preceding the un- 
foldment of that which satisfies that desire. 

INFINITE JOY 

The most intense joy is the exquisite love 

15 we have for somebody who reciprocates that 
love. The love the real man has for others, 
and they have for him, is an absolutely per- 
fect love, for it is the infinite love of God. 
When we are able to give happiness to some- 

20 one, we receive intense joy therefrom. In 
heaven, man is continually experiencing infi- 
nite joy by expressing God's ideas to those he 
loves, giving them joy and happiness. Man 
also has the joy of re-creating God's ideas 

25 into new and wonderful combinations, giving 
infinite happiness to everyone, and they are 
constantly giving him happiness by expressing 
to him the ideas they have re-created. He 
also has the infinite happiness of being con- 

30 scious of the wonderful beauties of new 



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1 worlds, which is shared with him by those he 
loves. 

Man, being an individualised idea of God's 
consciousness, does not move; the ideas of God 
5 move, and man is the thinking, movement, or 
activity of these ideas. There are infinite 
ideas continually circulating in Mind, idea 
after idea coming to man in the form of per- 
fect combinations. As you cannot split up 

10 Life, Truth and Love and reflect a portion, so 
every idea of God, from the least to the great- 
est, must reflect the whole of God. Each in- 
dividual spiritual being consists of the infinite 
ideas which have come to him throughout 

15 eternity, and, in addition to this knowledge, 
he has the power of knowing and re-viewing 
any idea of God. In heaven, man is contin- 
ually meeting new beings, whom he loves and 
who love him, and there is never any fear of 

20 expressing or receiving this love, for it is God's 
love. He is continually visiting new worlds, 
with no thought of ways and means, prepara- 
tions, never tiring, or having any trouble. 
There is no sickness, no hunger, no doubt, no 

25 fear, as everything is perfect and man can 
never tire of perfection. 

"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither 
have entered into the heart of man, the things 
which God hath prepared for them that love 

30 him. But God hath revealed them unto us by 



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1 his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, 
yea, the deep things of God" (I Cor. 2:9, 10). 

THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM 

5 There is no lack of protection: — "The Lord 
is my shepherd" ; 

There is no lack of any good thing: — "1 
shall not want" ; 

There is no lack of rest and sustenance: — 
10 "He maketh me to lie down in green pas- 
tures"; 

There is no lack of peace and refreshment: 
"He leadeth me beside the still waters"; 

There is no lack of healing: — "He restoreth 
15 my soul"; 

There is no lack of progress: — "He leadeth 
me in the paths of righteousness for his name's 
sake"; 

There is no lack of understanding: — "Yea, 
20 though I walk through the valley of the 
shadow of death, I will fear no evil" ; 

There is no lack of fellowship: — "For thou 
art with me"; 

There is no lack of support : — "Thy rod and 
25 thy staff they comfort me"; 

There is no lack of abundance : — "Thou 
preparest a table before me in the presence of 
mine enemies" ; 

There is no lack of gladness : — "Thou 
30 anointest my head with oil"; 



Ill 

There are no limitations: — "My cup runneth 
over"; 

"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me 
all the days of my life: and I will dwell in 
the house of the Lord forever." 



SUMMARY 

1 When the following principal points that 
affect the question of overcoming every false 
sense of bondage are understood and borne 
witness to, the infallibility of scientific right 

5 thinking — true prayer — will be demonstrated. 

I. All is God and His manifestation. God 
is the only thinker, the only actor, the only 
lover, and the only creator. Infinite, univer- 
sal good is ever-present; therefore, your ex- 

10 istence and the existence of heaven is perma- 
nent, eternal, and due solely to God. This 
good cannot be caused to cease to exist, al- 
though theoretically you can cease to see it. 

II. God, being the Principle of good, can- 
15 not know evil; hence the so-called material 

man's knowledge is a false or material sense 
or concept of the world of reality, and is due 
to the mist of matter hiding this perfect world. 

III. Man is not material, and consequently, 
20 not liable to sin, disease, want, or death. He 

is the manifestation of God, and therefore, he 
is, always has been, and always will be spir- 
itual and perfect, existing in heaven, governed 
by God, good, only. 
25 IV. Heaven is not a future state to be 



reached by death. "The kingdom of God is 
within you" (Luke 17:21). The Greek word 
"entos" translated "within" more accurately 
means "in the midst of"; therefore, heaven is 
a perfect state of consciousness within reach 
of our thought, or "in the midst of us," and a 
man has his own comparative heaven or hell 
by the way in which he thinks. 

V. Matter is merely the phenomena of 
mortal thought — externalised or materialised 
thought — the suppositional opposite to good. 
It has no reality, no permanence, and there- 
fore, no existence, but is merely an illusion 
exactly similar to the illusion that the earth 
was flat, or that the earth is material. This 
illusion your real self cannot suffer under, 
and it must ultimately completely vanish as 
its inherent nature is the quality of self-dis- 
appearance, and because only God, Truth and 
its manifestation exists. 

VI. Matter, and its concomitant evil, can 
therefore be caused to disappear, sometimes 
instantaneously. 

VII. There is no time but eternity, the 
unfolding of God's spiritual ideas to man, His 
consciousness; consequently, every word, every 
thought, and every act that has ever appar- 
ently existed or will ever come into seeming 
expression, exists now as far as it can be said 
to have any existence, merely as a suppo- 



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1 sitional absence of good. Therefore, the 
past, present, and future can be improved by 
treatment. 

VIII. Everything that you think, say, or 
5 do was predestined, and you could not have 
done anything else at any given moment un- 
less you treated or someone else treated for 
you, whereupon the condition would be im- 
proved. 

10 IX. When a man prays rightly, namely, by 
the realization of God and heaven, this is the 
thinning of the mist of matter, and indicates 
that some of the evil has disappeared forever, 
and you always see heaven more as it really is. 

15 X. Man has no free-will, as the only will 
is the will of God, absolute good. Therefore 
any attempt to conceive or create good results 
in your seeing less good; whereas, when you 
give up trying to do things materially and 

20 conform your thought to the absolute stand- 
ard of perfection, all of your difficulties will 
diminish. Material conditions do not alter, 
but the illusion of their reality, and therefore 
the evil, disappears. 

25 XI. Fatalism is not true, for every time 
you treat some of the evil disappears and 
heaven is seen more as it really is; that is, 
improved conditions, equally predestined, ap- 
pear owing to the thinning of the mist of 

30 matter hiding heaven. 



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XII. This appearance of good being heaven 
seen more clearly, if there is sufficient treat- 
ment, any obstacle can be overcome and future 
troubles steadily diminished. Sometimes this 
is not readily recognised, as the future, should 
there have been no treatment, may have been 
so bad that the total effect appears to be an 
increase in evil. 

XIII. Every thought we think has an ef- 
fect. The only real activity is the thinking 
of God. Mortal mind counterfeiting this ac- 
tivity, claims to create good or evil as the 
result of the so-called material man's thinking. 
God, being cause, it follows that there is no 
mortal mind, no matter, no evil, no ignorance, 
no fear, no sin, or mist of matter. 

XIV. As we bring all our troubles upon 
ourselves by our own wrong thinking, the 
only power evil has is the seeming power we 
give it in our thought by entertaining it. 
Therefore, you must always think only of 
good, not the so-called good of the material 
world, but of absolute good, the facts of the 
world of reality. 

XV. When you think of God and heaven, 
with the object of overcoming some difficulty, 
some of the evil disappears as the mist of 
matter has thinned, and good is discerned no 
matter how inadequate or how nearly perfect 
your concept of God and heaven is providing 



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1 it is your best concept. 

XVI. Therefore, the end of all evil depends 
solely upon the sufficiency of treatment, which 
is to be attained by individual consecration of 

5 thought throughout every second of each day. 

XVII. As treatment indicates the thinning 
of the mist of matter that hides perfection 
from us, good must ensue for everyone when 
a man prays properly. 

10 XVIII. A beginner can always get results 
by treatment, the demonstration depending 
solely upon the clearness of the realization of 
God and heaven. This clearness is the out- 
come of persistent treatment. 

15 XIX. As God is the only cause, evil cannot 
be increased, nor is there any power in mortal 
mind, animal magnetism, hypnotism, malprac- 
tice, etc. Therefore, you can safely give up 
doing things materially and rely upon treat- 

20 ment instead, as then the evil disappears. 

XX. The only way to help yourself or 
anyone else in any matter is by thinking of 
the world of reality. 

XXI. Therefore every evil thought has to 
25 be reversed and so used as a reminder to 

make you u^nk of God and heaven. 

XXII. You should not believe any state- 
ment made until you have proven its truth 
by demonstration, thereby discovering the 

30 only safe and sure foundation for your par- 



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ticular work, that of ascertained facts. "For 
other foundation can no man lay than that is 
laid" (I Cor. 3:11). 



DENIALS AND AFFIRMATIONS 



1 There is NO ABCESS; all is Spirit, the 
Principle of all purity and holiness. 

There are NO ACCIDENTS; God rules and 
governs everything. 
5 There are NO HARMFUL ACTIONS; 
Love is the only actor, and Love is omnipo- 
tent, for Love is God. 

Man is NEVER AFRAID OF MAKING 
MISTAKES; he reflects divine wisdom and 
10 knowledge, for he is God's consciousness, doing 
perfect work. 

Man NEVER AGES; man reflects eternal 
Mind, and is ever active and ever energetic; 
man reflects Life, and has all power and all 
15 strength. 

There is NO ANGER; all is Love, and man 
is absolutely loving. 

There is NO ANIMAL MAGNETISM; all 
is absolute purity and absolute holiness. 
20 NO ANIMAL can injure man; man is di- 
vine, surrounded by divine Love; God is Love, 
and all God's ideas reflect Love, and are abso- 
lutely loving. 

Man can NEVER BE AFRAID OF ANI- 
25 MALS; God is Love, and every idea of God 



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1 reflects Love; man knows that God is Love 
and is absolutely fearless. 

There are NO FALSE APPETITES; man 
is divine, governed by God, the Principle of 
5 all purity and holiness. 

There are NO HARDENED ARTERIES; 
all God's ideas are spiritual, perfect, and di- 
vine, benefiting and ministering to man. 
There is NO ASTIGMATISM; all is spir- 
10 itual and governed by God. 

B 

There are NO MATERIAL BACTERIA; 
all is Spirit and the manifestation of Spirit. 

15 There are no FALSE MEDICAL BE- 
LIEFS; man is the true idea of God, sur- 
rounded by God's thoughts, reflecting infinite 
Life, infinite Truth, infinite Love, and infinite 
wisdom. 

20 There are NO MATERIAL BELIEFS; God 
is Truth, and man is the knowledge of Truth, 
and knows Truth, and has spiritual under- 
standing. 

Blood can NEVER GIVE TROUBLE; all 

25 is infinite joy, peace, and harmony. 

There is NO MATERIAL BLOOD; all is 
infinite joy; this joy circulates right through- 
out the consciousness; Love is the power that 
causes this joy to circulate, and Love is om- 

30 nipotent, for Love is God; all is Spirit and the 



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1 manifestation of Spirit. 

There can be NO LOSS OF BLOOD; all is 
spiritual, perfect, and complete. 

There is NO MATERIAL BODY; man is 
5 spiritual and divine, the consciousness of 
God, manifesting the perfect harmony of 
Spirit. 

The bowels can NEVER GIVE TROUBLE ; 
all is absolute purity and absolute holiness. 
10 There are NO MATERIAL BOWELS; all 
is Spirit and the manifestation of Spirit. 

There are NO MATERIAL BUGS; all is 
Spirit and the manifestation of Spirit. 
Man NEVER HAS POOR BUSINESS; man 
15 has perfect work, for God works by means 
of man, and this work is perfect. 



NONE OF MAN'S CAPACITIES can ever 
20 be lost or injured; they are eternally per- 
fect and governed by the law of Spirit, giving 
man infinite joy and happiness. 

There is NO CATARRH; all is purity and 
holiness. 
25 There is NO MATERIAL CAUSE; God is 
the only cause. 

Man NEVER HAS TO CHANGE HIS 
BUSINESS; man is in Mind, in God, and has 
perfect work. 
30 There is NO CHANGEABLENESS; man 



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1 is in Mind, in God, with whom there is no 
variableness, neither shadow of turning. 

There is NO DIFFICULTY IN DISCERN- 
ING CHARACTER; God is the Principle of 
5 all knowledge, and man is the knowledge 
of God and knows instantly every idea he 
needs. 

There are NO CHILBLAINS; all is spir- 
itual, perfect, and harmonious. 
10 There is NO WANT OF CIRCULATION; 
infinite joy circulates right throughout the 
consciousness; Love is the power that causes 
this joy to circulate, and Love is omnipotent, 
for love is God. 
15 Man can NEVER HAVE A COLD; for man 
is spiritual and divine; all is purity and holi- 
ness. 

Man can NEVER BE COLD; for man is 
surrounded by the warmth of divine Love. 
20 There is NO COLD; all is Love and the 
manifestation of Love. 

There is NO CONGESTION; all is spiritual 
and perfect. 
There is NO CONSTIPATION; God's ideas 
25 unfold to man with perfect ease and regu- 
larity, and are passed on with perfect ease 
and understanding. 

There is NEVER ANY LACK OF CONFI- 
DENCE; man reflects divine intelligence and 
30 knows that there is nothing but God, in- 



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1 finite good, and has absolute confidence and 
courage. 

There is NO CONSUMPTION; all is purity, 
holiness and harmony, for all is Spirit and 
5 the manifestation of Spirit. 

There is NO CONTAGION; all is Truth and 
the knowledge of Truth. 

There is NO COUGH; all is peace, rest, and 
harmony; infinite harmony surrounds man, 
10 for there is nothing but Love and the mani- 
festation of Love. 



There is NO DEATH; all is Life eternal; 
15 all God's ideas reflect eternal Life. 

There is NO DEATH ; God is the Life man 
expresses; man is the life of Life, and knows 
that that Life is his Life, for that Life is God, 
the only Life. 
20 There are NO MATERIAL DECISIONS; 
God's will is the only will; man is the con- 
sciousness of God by means of which God 
. thinks and acts and knows; God rules and 
governs everything. 
25 There is NO DECEIT; all is Truth and per- 
fect understanding of Truth. 

Man can NEVER BE DECEIVED; man 

reflects divine wisdom and intelligence, and 

understands every idea of God instantly and 

30 perfectly; only ideas of Truth can came to 



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1 man, for man is in Mind, in Truth. 

There are NO DELAYS; everything works 
perfectly and divinely, governed by God, the 
Principle of all law and order; the demonstra- 
5 tions of Love and Truth are instantaneous. 
There are NO DELAYS; the unfolding of 
God's ideas is instantaneous, and man has in- 
stantly every idea he needs. 

There is NO DEPRAVED WILL; God's 
10 will is the only will. 

There is NO DEPRESSION; all is joy, for 
God is the Principle of joy, and man is abso- 
lutely joyous. 

There are NO MATERIAL DESIRES; 
15 "Love is the universal desire, self-f ulf illed" ; 
man is spiritual and divine, dwelling in the 
world of spiritual ideas. 

There are NO LOW DESIRES; there are 
only pure and holy feelings, inspired by Love. 
20 Man NEVER DESPAIRS; he is always ac- 
tive and joyous, the infinite activity and en- 
ergy of Mind. 

There are NO DETRIMENTAL 
THOUGHTS; only God's thoughts, pure and 
25 holy ideas. 

There is NO DEVIL; all is God and His 
manifestation. 

Man NEVER DIES; man has Life eternal. 
There is NO DISCHARGE; all is purity 
30 and holiness. 



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1 There is NO DISCONTENT; man has all 
power and knows that he has all power; he 
is the consciousness of God and has the power 
to know any idea he needs. 
5 There is NO DISEASE; all is Spirit, the 
Principle of infinite perfection, purity, and 
holiness. 

Man NEVER DISLIKES TO BE WITH 
HIS FELLOW-MAN; man loves to be with 
10 his fellow-man, for God is Love, and man is 
absolutely loving towards all. 

Man is NEVER UNCERTAIN WHAT TO 
DO; man always acts perfectly, grouping to- 
gether God's ideas with perfect understanding. 
15 There is NO DOUBT; God rules and gov- 
erns everything, and man knows that there is 
nothing but God and has perfect confidence. 
Man NEVER DREAMS; God is Mind; man 
reflects Mind and is ever active and ever 
20 energetic. 

There is NO DREAM; all is Life eternal; 
man is the consciousness of God by means of 
which God forever thinks and works and 
loves. 
25 There is NO DROUGHT; all is spiritual, 
perfect, and divine. 

Man NEVER DRINKS; man is spiritual 
and divine; only God's pure and holy ideas 
can come to man; all is Spirit, the Principle 
30 of all purity and holiness. 



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1 E 

Man NEVER EATS TOO MUCH FOOD; 
man receives and passes on the ideas of God 
with perfect ease and understanding. 
5 There is NO ENVY; all is sympathy; man 
has everything he needs and rejoices to see 
his fellow-man have everything he needs. 
There is NO EVIL; only God, infinite good. 
Man NEVER THINKS OF EVIL; man 
10 sees as God sees, with spiritual discernment of 
Life, Truth and Love; man knows that man 
is perfect, reflecting God, infinite good, and 
the absolute perfection of God. 

There is NO MATERIAL EXISTENCE; 
15 the body of man is divine consciousness, 
spiritual and ever-lasting, reflecting divine 
substance; man's life is Spirit, Life eternal; 
the only Life is God, the only man is God's 
reflection, as perfect as God. 
20 There are NO FLATTENED EYE-BALLS; 
all God's ideas are spiritual, perfect, and com- 
plete. 

There are NO HARDENED EYE-BALLS; 
all God's ideas are spiritual, perfect, and di- 
25 vine ; reflecting God, the Principle of harmony. 
There is NO ESOTERICISM; man knows 
Truth and loves Truth, for man is the knowl- 
edge of Truth, the knowledge of God. 

There is NO EARTHQUAKE; all is God 
30 and the manifestation of God. 



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There is NO BLIND FAITH; man is the 
knowledge of God and the wisdom of God; all 
is perfect understanding of God. 
5 There is NO FAVOKITISM; God is Love, 
and man is absolutely loving towards all, 
for man is the love of God; God rules and 
governs everything. 
Man NEVER FEARS; man knows that all 
10 is good, and he is absolutely joyous, free, and 
fearless; this freedom is absolutely secure and 
man has absolute trust in God. 

There is NO FEAR; man has perfect trust 
and perfect confidence in his fellow-man, be- 
15 cause he has absolute trust and confidence in 
God. 

There is NO FEAR OF MAKING MIS- 
TAKES ; man reflects divine wisdom and 
knowledge, for he is God's consciousness, doing 
20 perfect work, for God works by means of man. 
There is NOTHING TO FEAR; all is Love 
and the manifestation of Love. 

Man NEVER NEEDS TO FIND GOD; 
God is ever-present, and man is always con- 
25 scious of his eternal unity with God; "Lo, I 
am with you alway" (Matt. 28:20). 

There is NO DELAY IN FINDING 

MONEY; all God's ideas are in their right 

place; these ideas unfold to man with unfail- 

30 ing regularity and perfect sequence, and are 



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passed on with perfect understanding. 

There is NO EXCESS OF FLESH; all is 
normal and harmonious, governed by God, the 
Principle of harmony. 

There is NEVER ANY LACK OF FLESH; 
all God's ideas are perfect and complete, re- 
flecting God, the Principle of substance, per- 
fect and eternal. 

Man NEVER DISLIKES HIS FOOD; man 
loves to receive the ideas of God and pass 
them on, for God is Love, and man is abso- 
lutely loving. 

There is NO MATERIAL FOOD; only the 
spiritual ideas of God which nourish and sus- 
tain man; these ideas are instantly available 
to man in all their perfection. 

Man can NEVER REJECT HIS FOOD; 
man is nourished and sustained by the ideas 
of God; these ideas unfold to man with per- 
fect ease and are instantly passed on with 
perfect understanding. 

Man NEVER LACKS FORESIGHT; man 
is in Mind, and knows everything he needs 
instantly, for all is Spirit, and man has spir- 
itual perception, discernment, and under- 
standing. 

Man NEVER THINKS OF THE FUTURE ; 
man has ever - present and infinite joy, for 
God is the Principle of all joy. 

There is NO FORGETFULNESS ; God is 



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1 the Principle of all knowledge, and man knows 
instantly every idea he needs. 



5 There are NO GALL-STONES; all is Spirit 
and the manifestation of Spirit. 

There are NO GERMS; all is Spirit, the 
Principle of all purity and holiness. 

There is NOTHING BUT GOD; in Him 
10 man lives, and moves, and has his being. 

There is NO GREED; man has everything 
he needs, and rejoices to see his fellow-man 
have everything he needs. 

There is NO GROWTH; all is Spirit and 
15 the manifestation of Spirit. 

There is NO MALIGNANT GROWTH; all 
is Spirit, the Principle of absolute purity and 
absolute holiness. 

20 H 

Man's HAIR IS NOT MATERIAL; all 
God's ideas are spiritual and perfect. 

Man's HAIR NEVER TURNS GREY; all 
God's ideas are spiritual, perfect and com- 
25 plete, reflecting Life and substance. 

Man can NEVER HARM HIS FELLOW- 
MAN; God is Love, and man reflects that 
Love, and is absolutely loving. 

There are NO HARMFUL THOUHGTS; 
30 Love alone thinks; Love is the only Mind, and 



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Love is omnipotent, for Love is God. 

There is NO HATRED; all is Love; man is 
the infinite expression of Love, and is abso- 
lutely loving towards all. 

There is NO HEREDITY; man's Father- 
Mother is God, and man is made in the image 
and likeness of God, spiritual and divine. 

There is NO HESITANCY; man reflects 
Mind, and instantly passes on God's ideas. 

There is NO HIGH TEMPERATURE; all 
is normal and harmonious, governed by divine 
law and order. 

Man NEVER THINKS OF HIMSELF; man 
is always thinking rightly, thinking of God, 
infinite good, for man is the knowledge of 
God. 

There is NO HYPNOTISM; G o d is the 
only reality; God alone acts. 

I 

There is NO IGNORANCE; G o d is the 
Principle of all knowledge ; man reflects divine 
knowledge and knows instantly every idea he 
needs. 

There is NO LACK OF IMAGINATION; 
man continually perceives and reflects God's 
ideas, re-creating them into new and wonder- 
ful combinations which give infinite joy and 
happiness to all. 

There is NO IMPATIENCE; man is abso- 



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1 lutely patient; all is peace, rest and harmony; 
man is poised in Mind, and governed by di- 
vine Love. 

There are NO IMPURE THOUGHTS; 
5 only God's thoughts, reflecting infinite purity 
and holiness. 

There is NO IMPURITY; all is Spirit, the 
Principle of all purity and holiness. 

There is NO INCAPACITY; man is the 
10 power of God and the wisdom of God, by 
means of which God works and thinks and 
acts. 

There is NO INDECISION; God is the 
Prinicple of all law and order, and man is gov- 
15 erned by law and order. 

There is NO INDIGESTION; man under- 
stands all God's ideas perfectly and with ab- 
solute ease. 

There is NO INFECTION; only ideas of 
20 Truth can come to man; only ideas of Truth 
can be passed on, for God rules and governs 
everything. 

There is NO INFLAMMATION; all is 
spiritual and divine and normal, governed by 
25 God, the Principle of all harmony. 

There is NO INHARMONY; all God's ideas 
reflect perfect harmony, for God is the Prin- 
ciple of harmony, and rules and governs 
everything. 
30 MAN CAN NEVER BE INJURED; man is 



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spiritual, perfect and divine, reflecting sub- 
stance, purity, and the infinite holiness of 
Spirit. 

NOTHING MATERIAL CAN CAUSE 
ANY INJURY; God is the only cause; all is 
Spirit and the manifestation of Spirit; all 
God's ideas are spiritual, perfect and complete. 

Man NEVER LACKS INSPIRATION; 
man is perfect and divine, reflecting God r 
Truth; God's ideas unfold to man with un- 
failing regularity and perfect sequence; when 
man works, God works, for man is the con- 
sciousness of God by means of which He 
works. 

There is NO WANT OF INTELLIGENCE; 
God is the Principle of intelligence and man 
reflects intelligence, understanding perfectly 
every idea of God that comes to him. 

There is NO LACK OF INTUITION; man 
is in Mind and sees as God sees, with spiritual 
vision; Mind knows, for Mind is God, and 
man is God's consciousness by means of which 
God knows, reflecting infinite Life, infinite 
Truth, infinite Love, and infinite wisdom. 

There is NO IRRITABILITY; all is peace, 
rest, and harmony. 

There is NO IRRITATION; all is peace, 
joy, and harmony. 

I AM NOT MATERIAL; man is spiritual, 
perfect and divine, the reflection of God. 



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1 J 

There is NO LACK OF JOY; all is infinite 
joy and happiness, and man is absolutely 
joyous. 
5 There is NO LACK OF JOY; God is the 
Principle of Joy, and infinite joy circulates 
throughout the consciousness of God, Love 
is the power that causes that joy to circulate, 
and Love is omnipotent, for Love is God. 
10 Man NEVER FAILS TO GIVE JOY TO 
OTHERS; the presence of God is all-pres- 
ence, the sufficiency of joy; "at thy right 
hand are pleasures forevermore." 

There is NO JUDGMENT ; all is perfection ; 
15 man is in Life, in God, perfect and divine. 

K 

There is NO KARMA; God is the only 
cause, and the only effect is the manifesta- 
20 tion of God. 

There are NO MATERIAL KIDNEYS; all 
God's ideas are spiritual and divine, reflect- 
ing Spirit. 

25 L 

There is NO LACK; man's body, home, 
money, food, and clothes are Mind. 

Man is NEVER LATE; man is poised in 

Mind, and moves instantly from idea to idea 

30 with perfect ease, always being in the right 



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1 place, in Mind. 

There is NO LAZINESS; man is the re- 
flection of Mind, and is ever engaged in spir- 
itual activities. 
5 Man NEVER NEEDS TO LEARN ANY- 
THING; man reflects divine wisdom and di- 
vine intelligence, and knows instantly every 
idea he needs, for man is the knowledge of 
God. 
10 Man NEVER LIE'S ; God is Truth, and man 
reflects Truth and is absolutely truthful. 

There is NO POOR LIGHT; all is Truth; 
man reflects Truth and has spiritual under- 
standing, discerning the ideas of God per- 
15 fectly. 

There is NO LONESOMENESS; man re- 
joices in the consciousness of God's ever-pres- 
ence, and in the knowledge of his immortality 
and divine activity. 
20 Man can NEVER LOSE ANYTHING; all 
God's ideas are in Mind, ministering to man. 
There is NOTHING EVER LOST; all God's 
ideas are always in their right place, in Mind; 
man is instantly in touch with any idea he 
25 needs, for God is the source of all supply. 

There is NO WANT OF LOVE; God is 
Love, and Love is ever-present, and man is 
absolutely loving towards all. 

Man NEVER FAILS TO BE LOVING; 
30 man is the love of God, and is always abso- 



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1 lutely loving towards all, and this Love is 
God's love. 

There are NO MATERIAL LUNGS; all 
God's ideas are spiritual, reflecting Life 
5 and Spirit, the Principle of all substance. 
The lungs can NEVER BE EATEN 
AWAY; all God's ideas are perfect and com- 
plete, reflecting perfection, substance and 
purity. 
10 M 

There is NO MALICE AGAINST TRUTH; 
man knows Truth, loves Truth, and rejoices 
in Truth, for Truth is God, and man is the 
knowledge of God, the knowledge of Truth. 

15 Man NEVER FAILS TO DO GOOD; man 
is always doing good, for God is Love, and 
Love works by means of man; man is the 
love of Love, the reflection of absolute per- 
fection. 

20 There is NO MATERIAL BODY; man's 
body is spiritual and divine. 

There is NO LIFE IN MATTER; God is 
the only Life; all is Life and the manifesta- 
tion of Life; God is Spirit, and all God's ideas 

25 are spiritual and divine. 

Man NEVER THINKS OF MATERIAL 
THINGS ; man is always thinking rightly, 
thinking of God, for man is the consicousness 
of God, by means of which God thinks and 

30 knows. 



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1 There is N O MATERIAL MAN; man is 
spiritual and divine, manifesting the perfect 
harmony of Spirit; man is the knowledge of 
Truth, and knows that he is changeless and 
5 immortal, reflecting divine Mind, eternal Life, 
and perfect Love. 

MAN IS NOT MATERIAL; man is as pure 
as Spirit; his will is the will of Love; his 
sight is the power of spiritual perception and 
10 spiritual discernment; his hearing is the power 
of spiritual understanding; his taste is the 
power of spiritual appreciation of the ideas of 
God; his touch is the power of spiritual rec- 
ognition; and he knows instantly every idea 
15 of God, for he is the reflection of God, Spirit. 
Man NEVER FAILS TO BE DEPENDA- 
BLE; man is governed by Love and is always 
trustworthy and dependable; man is governed 
by Mind and is always in the right place at 
20 the right time. 

There is NO MATERIAL MONEY; all is 
the power of God, and man reflects God or 
manifests God, individualising infinite power, 
the infinite power of perfect Love. 
25 There is NO MATTER; all is Spirit and the 
manifestation of Spirit. 
• EVERYTHING MATERIAL IS A LIE; 
all is God and God's perfect world. 

There is NO MATERIAL POWER; only 
30 ideas of Truth can come to man; only ideas 



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1 of Truth can be passed on, for God rules and 
governs everything; God is the only power 
and the only reality. 

There is NO MATERIAL CAUSE ; the only 
5 cause is God, and the only effect is the man- 
ifestation of God, infinite good; man is the 
perfect idea of God, endowed with divine wis- 
dom, intelligence, and knowledge, reflecting 
God in all his thoughts. 
10 There is NO MATERIAL MAN ; man is 
spiritual and divine, reflecting divine wisdom, 
knowledge, intelligence, and understanding. 

There is NO MISUNDERSTANDING; man 
reflects divine wisdom and intelligence and 
15 knows instantly every idea of God, for man is 
the knowledge of God. 

There is NO LACK OF MEMORY; man is 
the knowledge of God, and knows everything 
he needs. 
20 There is NO MENTAL MALPRACTICE; 
man is surrounded by divine Love. 

There is no MENTAL SUGGESTION; 
man's thoughts are God's thoughts, and only 
God's thoughts can come to man. 
25 There is NO MENTAL ASSASSINATION; 
all is Life ever-lasting. 

There are NO UNSATISFACTORY MA- 
TERIALS; all the ideas of God are spiritual, 
perfect and complete. 
30 There are NO DEFECTIVE MATERIALS; 



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1 all God's ideas are perfect and divine, minis- 
tering to man. 

There are NO MISTAKES; God alone 
rules and governs everything. 
5 There is NO CLASHING OF MINDS; there 
is only one Mind, God, and man is always 
in that Mind, governed by the will of Love, 
expressing perfect harmony. 

Mortal mind CANNOT KEEP MAN FROM 
10 HIS WORK; there is only one Mind, God, and 
man is governed by God, the Principle of all 
law and order. 

There is NO LACK OF MONEY; there are 
infinite ideas in Mind instantly available to 
15 man, and man has instantly every idea he 
needs. 

Mortal mind can NEVER CAUSE HARM; 
God is the only cause and the only Mind; 
every idea of God is perfect, and governed by 
20 God, the Principle of all perfection. 

There are NO MORTAL MIND BELIEFS; 

all is Truth and the knowledge of Truth; man 

knows Truth and has spiritual understanding. 

There is NO MISERY; God is the Principle 

25 of joy, and man is absolutely joyous. 

There is NO MONOTONY; God's ideas con- 
tinually unfold to man in infinite variety of 
combinations, which radiate out in infinite 
Mind, giving infinite joy and happiness to all. 
30 There are NO WEAKENED MUSCLES; 



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1 man reflects Life, and has all power and all 
strength; all God's ideas are spiritual, perfect 
and divine. 

There is NO MORTAL MIND; only one 
5 Mind, God, infinite good. 

There are NO MUSCLES TO GIVE 
TROUBLE; the ideas of God give infinite joy 
and happiness. 
There are NO MUSCLES; only God's spir- 
10 itual and perfect ideas. 

There is NO BLACK MAGIC; all is Truth 
and the manifestation of Truth. 

There is NO MESMERISM; God is the 
only power, and man is ever conscious of God, 
15 for man is the knowledge of God, by means 
of which God is conscious of Himself. 

There is NO MATERIAL PHENOMENA; 
all is Spirit and the manifestation of Spirit. 

20 N 

Man is NEVER IN NEED; man's supply is 
Mind, God, and this supply is infinite and 
everlasting; infinite ideas unfold to man, idea 
after idea, all perfect and divine; these ideas 

25 unfold with unfailing regularity and perfect 
sequence, for omnipotent Love unfolds these 
ideas throughout eternity. 

Mortal mind CANNOT KEEP AWAY 
WHAT MAN NEEDS; God is the only 

30 Mind and the only power; God's ideas 



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1 come to man with unfailing regularity and 
are passed on with unfailing regularity in all 
their perfection and completeness ; this 
action is instantaneous. 
5 There are NO MATERIAL NERVES; all 
God's ideas are spiritual and divine. 

There are NO MATERIAL NERVES TO 
CAUSE TROUBLE; God is the only cause; 
all God's ideas benefit and minister to man 
10 and give him infinite joy and happiness. 

Man's NOSE CAN NEVER BLEED; man 
is spiritual and divine, manifesting perfect 
harmony. 

There can be NO STOPPAGE OF THE 
15 NOSE; all God's ideas are spiritual and di- 
vine, ministering to man and benefiting him; 
these ideas reflect harmony, for all is perfect 
harmony. 

NOTHING CAN EVER BE IN THE 
20 WRONG PLACE; all God's ideas are in the 
right place, in Mind, in God. 

NOTHING CAN INJURE MAN; God is 
the Principle of all law and order, and every 
idea of God is governed by law and order. 
25 NOTHING EVER HAPPENED; all is 
Spirit and the manifestation of Spirit. 

NOTHING IS EVER OUT OF PLACE; all 
God's ideas are in their right place, in Mind. 
There are NO NEGATIVE THOUGHTS; 
30 only God's pure and holy ideas. 



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1 

There is NO OLD AGE; man is spiritual 
and divine, the immortal and unchanging re- 
flection of eternal Life and Mind. 
5 There is NO OLD AGE; man reflects 
eternal Mind, and is ever active and ever en- 
ergetic; man reflects Life, and has all power 
and all strength. 

There is NO OVERWORK; God works by 

10 means of man, and this work is perfect, for 

God's work is spiritual, finished and divine. 

Man is NEVER OBSTINATE; man is 

always helping his fellow-man, and loves to 

pass on God's ideas, for God is Love, and man 

15 is absolutely loving. 



There is NO PAIN; all is peace, joy and 
harmony; all is Spirit and the manifestation 
20 of Spirit; the sons of God shout for joy. 

There are NO PASSIONS; man is divine, 
governed by God, the Principle of all purity 
and holiness. 
Man NEVER THINKS OF THE PAST; 
25 man has absolute and eternal joy; only ideas 
of Love can come to man, giving him infinite 
joy. 

NOTHING EVER HAPPENED in the past; 

"that which hath been is now"; the action 

30 of God is perfect, harmonious, and instan- 



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1 taneous; now man is spiritual, perfect and 
divine. 

Man can NEVER HAVE ANY PHYSICAL 
DEFECTS; man is spiritual and divine, his 
5 body is Mind. 

There are NO PHYSICAL DISORDERS; 
all is absolute purity and holiness. 

There is NO PHLEGM; all is purity and 
holiness. 
10 Man NEVER CEASES HIS PLEASURE; 
man is in Love, in God, with pleasures for- 
evermore. 

There is NO POISON IN THE BLOOD; all 
is Spirit, the Principle of all purity and holi- 
15 ness. 

There is NO MATERIAL POWER; God is 
the only power. 

There are NO HIGH PRICES; God is the 

Principle of all justice, and man is absolutely 

20 just; there is a perfect law of supply and 

demand, and the interchange of God's ideas 

gives joy to all. 

There is NO PRIDE; man is absolutely 
selfless; all is meekness, humility, and knowl- 
25 edge of God. 

Man NEVER FAILS TO PRAY; man is 

always thinking rightly, thinking of God, for 

man is the knowledge of God. 

There is NO FALSE PHILISOPHY; all is 

30 Truth, and perfect knowledge and under- 



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1 standing of Truth. 

There are NO CINEMA PICTURES; all is 

God and the manifestation of God. 
Man NEVER "PICTURES" when praying; 
5 man is always conscious of God and knows 
God, for man is the consciousness of God by 
means of which God thinks and acts and 
loves. 

10 R 

RAIN CAN NEVER CAUSE HARM; God 
is the only cause; all God's ideas minister to 
man. 

RAIN CAN NEVER CAUSE DAMAGE; 
15 God is the only cause; all is spiritual, perfect, 
and divine. 

There is NO MATERIAL RAIN; all God's 
ideas are spiritual, ministering to man. 

There is NO NEED OF RAIN; the ideas 
20 of God unfold to man in perfect sequence, ful- 
filling every need. 

There is NO WANT OF RAIN; the action 
of God on man, enabling him to be conscious 
of the infinite ideas in Mind, is instantaneous 
25 and perfect. 

There is NO RESENTMENT; Love is All- 
in-all, for Love is God. 

There is NO RESTLESSNESS; man rests 
in God, the source and Principle of all 
30 activity. 



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1 There is NO REVENGE ; all is charity and 
Love, for Love is God. 

Mortal mind can NEVER TAKE MAN 
OUT OF HIS RIGHT PLACE; there is only 
5 one Mind, God, and man is always in his right 
place, in Mind. 

Man NEVER FAILS TO CLEARLY 

REALISE GOD; man is the power of God 

and the wisdom of God, by means of which 

10 God thinks and acts and knows; all is perfect 

understanding of God. 



There is NO DIFFICULTY IN SEEING 

15 everything properly; man has spiritual percep- 
tion, discernment, and understanding, and 
knows perfectly every idea of God, for man 
is God's consciousness by means of which God 
knows and works. 

20 There is NO SELFISHNESS ; man loves to 
help his fellow-man, for God is Love, and man 
is absolutely loving. 

There is NO SELF- JUSTIFICATION; God 
governs with perfect justice to all. 

25 There is NO SELF-WILL; God's will is the 
only will. 

NO HUMAN SELF-WILL HAS ANY 
POWER; the only will is the will of divine 
Principle, the will that inspires man with 

30 freedom and enduring peace; Thy will is 



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1 always being done; God is the only power, and 
man is governed by God alone. 

NO MATERIAL BODY SEPARATES 
MAN FROM GOD; man's body is spiritual 
K and divine, consisting of the constant succes- 
sion of perfect ideas that he receives from 
God, and which, by reflection, become his 
body ; there is nothing but God and His 
manifestation. 
10 There is NO SENSITIVENESS; all is 
meekness, humility, and knowledge of God. 

Man is NEVER SELF-CONSCIOUS; man 
is God's self-consciousness, the only self-con- 
sciousness, the life of Life, the truth of Truth, 
15 and the love of God. 

Man's SIGHT IS NOT MATERIAL; man's 
sight is spiritual; man has spiritual percep- 
tion, spiritual discernment, and spiritual un- 
derstanding, and knows Truth, always think- 
20 ing rightly, thinking of God; man instantly 
recognises Truth and reflects Truth; man is 
the truth of Truth, the Christ-consciousness, 
spiritual, perfect and divine. 

There is NO DIMNESS OF SIGHT; man 
25 discerns perfectly the ideas of God. 

There is NO POOR SIGHT; man's sight is 
spiritual and perfect, for man sees as God 
sees, with spiritual discernment. 

There is NO SHORT SIGHT; man's sight 
30 is spiritual and divine, for man has spiritual 



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1 discernment. 

There is NO SIN; man is the reflection of 

Spirit, the Principle of all purity and holiness. 

MAN'S SKIN CAN NEVER BE BROKEN ; 

5 all God's ideas are spiritual, perfect and 

complete. 

MAN'S SKIN CAN NEVER BE 
SHRUNKEN; all is spiritual, perfect, divine 
and complete. 
10 The SKIN CAN NEVER STRETCH; all 
God's ideas are normal, perfect and har- 
monious. 

There is NO MATERIAL SKIN; all God's 
ideas are spiritual, perfect and divine. 
15 Man NEVER SLEEPS; man is divine, ever 
active and ever energetic, and governed by 
God; he has instantly everything he needs. 

Man NEVER NEEDS SLEEP; God is 
Mind, and man reflects Mind, and is ever ac- 
20 tive and ever energetic. 

NO WANT OF SLEEP can touch man ; man 
has instantly everything he needs, for God is 
the source of all supply. 

The STOMACH CAN NEVER GIVE 
25 TROUBLE; all is purity and holiness. 

There is NO MATERIAL STOMACH; all 
God's ideas are spiritual and divine. 

There is NO STUPIDITY; man reflects 
divine wisdom, intelligence and knowledge. 
30 There are NO DEPARTED SPIRITS; God 



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1 is Spirit, and man, made in the image and 
likeness of God, is spiritual; God is Life, man 
reflects Life and has Life eternal. 

There is NO SPIRITUALISM; all is Truth 
5 and the manifestation of Truth. 

Man NEVER SMOKES; man is spiritual 
and divine; man's every desire is satisfied 
instantly, for God is the source of all supply; 
all God's ideas are spiritual. 

10 T 

There is NO WANT of TACT; man 

reflects divine wisdom, intelligence, and 
knowledge, always doing perfect work, pass- 

15 ing on the ideas of Love, for man is governed 
by Love. 

There are NO DECAYED TEETH; all 
God's ideas are spiritual, reflecting the Prin- 
ciple of substance, perfect and complete. 

20 There are NO LOOSE TEETH; all God's 
ideas are in their right place, in Mind, work- 
ing perfectly, and ministering to man. 

Man can NEVER LOSE HIS TEETH; all 
God's ideas are in Mind, in God. 

25 There are NO POOR TEETH; God's ideas 
are spiritual, perfect and divine. 

Man NEVER THINKS OF THE PAST j 
OR FUTURE; man has absolute and eternal ! 
joy, always thinking of God, infinite good. 

30 There is NO WRONG THINKING; man is 



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1 the knowledge of God, always thinking of 

rightly, for God thinks by means of man. 

NO THOUGHTS OF DEATH CAN TOUCH 

MAN ; only God's thoughts of Life, Truth and 

5 Love come to man. 

NO MORTAL MIND THOUGHTS CAN 
AFFECT MAN; only God's pure and holy 
ideas come to man, for God is the only 
thinker, and God thinks by means of man. 
10 There is NO TIME; God's ideas unfold to 
man in perfect sequence throughout eternity. 
There is NO MATERIAL TIME; the ideas 
of God unfold to man, idea after idea, giving 
man infinite joy and happiness. 
15 There is NO WANT OF TIME; everything 
is done instantly; all God's ideas are finished 
and complete, and unfold to man with unfail- 
ing regularity and perfect sequence. 

Man is NEVER TIRED; man reflects Mind, 
20 and is ever active and ever energetic; man 
reflects Life and has all power and all 
strength. 

There is NO TIREDNESS; God is Life, and 
man reflects Life and has all power and all 
25 strength. 

Man NEVER HAS POOR TRADE; man 
has perfect work, man has instantly every 
idea he needs. 

Man Is NEVER UNABLE TO TREAT; 
30 man is the knowledge of God, always think- 



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10 



ing rightly, thinking of God, for when man 
thinks God thinks, for God thinks by means 
of man. 

TREATMENT IS NEVER INSUFFI- 
CIENT; God, Love, is all-presence and all- 
sufficiency, and man is the knowledge of God, 
the knowledge of Love; when man works, God 
works, for God works by means of man, His 
consciousness. 



U 



Man is NEVER UNCONSCIOUS; man is 
the consciousness of God, the knowledge of 
absolute good, always conscious of eternal 
15 Life, divine completeness and perfection. 

There are NO UNDESIRABLE CONDI- 
TIONS; man is always in the right place, in 
Mind, in God, receiving and passing on God's 
ideas, which give infinite joy to all. 
20 There is NO LACK OF UNDERSTAND- 
ING; man knows Truth, rejoices in Truth, for 
man is the knowledge of Truth. 

Man is NEVER UNKIND; God is Love, 
and man is the love of God, always helping 
25 his fellow-man, giving him infinite happiness 
and joy. 

Man NEVER HAS UNPLEASANT 
WORK; God is Love, and man loves his work 
and rejoices in receiving and passing on God's 
30 ideas. 



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1 Man CANNOT BE UNPUNCTUAL; man 
is divine and governed by God, the Principle 
of all law and order; man is always in the 
right place, in Mind. 

5 There are NO UNWELCOME VISITORS; 
all God's ideas are perfect and in their right 
place, giving infinite joy and happiness to 
all ; the only ideas that come to man are divine 
and absolutely perfect. 
10 Man NEVER FAILS TO BE UPRIGHT; 
man reflects God, and expresses the nature of 
God; man reflects Spirit, and expresses purity 
and holiness. 

15 V 

There are NO VARICOSE VEINS ; all 
God's ideas are spiritual, perfect and divine. 
There is NO VENGEANCE; only charity; 
God is Love, and all is mercy and goodness. 
20 There are NO VENGEFUL THOUGHTS; 
God is Love, and the only thinker is Love, and 
only thoughts of Love can come to man; only 
thoughts of Love can be passed on. 

There are NO SWOLLEN VEINS; all is 
25 spiritual, perfect and harmonious. 

There are NO UNWELCOME VISITORS; 

only God's perfect and holy ideas can come to 

man, and man loves to receive these ideas, for 

God is Love, and man is absolutely loving 

60 towards all. 



150 

1 W 

There is NO WANT; God is the source of 
infinite ideas which are instantly available to 
man; these ideas unfold to man with unfailing 
5 regularity and perfect sequence, and are 
passed on with unfailing regularity and per- 
fect sequence, giving infinite joy and happi- 
ness to all; Love is the power that causes 
these ideas to unfold to man, and Love is om- 
10 nipotent, for Love is God; man is always in 
the right place to receive these ideas; man is 
always in the right place to pass on these 
ideas, for man is in Mind, in God. 

There is NO WANT; man is the reflection 
15 of Spirit, and spiritual ideas are his food; his 
growth is sustained by the law of Life, which 
supplies every need, and unfolds to man in- 
finite ideas in perfect abundance, giving him 
substance and strength. 
20 There is NO WEAKNESS ; God is Life, and 
man reflects Life, and has all power and all 
strength. 

There is NO WEARINESS ; man reflects Life 

and has all power and strength; man reflects 

25 Mind and is ever active and ever energetic. 

There are NO MATERIAL WEEDS; only 

God's perfect spiritual ideas. 

There are NO HARMFUL WINDS; all is 
peace, rest and harmony. 
30 Man's WORK CAN NEVER LEAD TO 



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1 LAW-SUITS OR TROUBLE; man's work is 
God's work; this work always leads to abso- 
lute joy and happiness and satisfaction on 
the part of all, for God rules and governs 
5 everything. 

Man's WORK IS NEVER DELAYED; all 
God's ideas are finished and complete; the 
unfolding of these ideas to man is instan- 
taneous. 
10 Man's WORK IS NEVER INEFFECTIVE ; 
man is the consciousness of God, by means of 
which God works; this work is perfect and 
divine. 

Man's WORK IS NEVER INEFFICIENT; 
15 man's work is perfect, for when man works, 
God works. 

Man NEVER WORKS FOR MONEY; man 
has instantly every idea of God he needs. 
Man NEVER HAS TO CHANGE HIS 
20 WORK; for man is in Mind, in God, and has 
perfect work. 

There is NO MATERIAL WORK; man's 

work is spiritual and divine, receiving and 

passing on God's ideas, and re-creating these 

25 ideas into new and wonderful combinations, 

giving infinite joy and happiness to all. 

Man NEVER HATES HIS WORK; God is 
Love; man reflects that Love, and loves and 
rejoices in his work. 
30 ALL IS GOD AND HIS MANIFESTATION. 



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